Chess players and SF
Don't ask me to play. Aint no good. I want research, references and opinions. For an Uplift story I'm trying to promote by occasionally metaphorically whacking our good DR. on the head with a zen two-by-four. I know all about Eric Frank Russell's martians and their passion for chess. I don't know about any others. Are there any major SF novels where the use of chess by an alien becomes a major plot point? Somewhere I've read that a good english speaking player can think about a game for hours without ever having a single thought in english. Replace english--or anglic with any Civilization of the Five Galaxies language and there's a story line for a certain race that virtually writes itself. (If you want to guess, do it off list.) Also, does anyone use chess or blitzchess as a marital aid? (No, not strip chess.) Can a couple stay mad at each other after a full hour of one minute to move? Let me know what you think. Anything to thin out the percentage of political emails. William Taylor -- You stop serving seafood at the castle when for the tenth time you?again hear... Knight takes prawn. Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Chess players and SF
On 8/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any major SF novels where the use of chess by an alien becomes a major plot point? It isn't a novel and I don't anyone would call it major, but there's an interesting short story by Bruce Boston called Surreal Chess. It's rather, um, surreal. It's available at fictionwise.com for 49 cents. And there is a chess metaphor repeated throughout the first 20 or so minutes of the movie _Independence Day__. Also, there is a thread at Google Answers that lists some chess fiction, although not all of it is science fiction. http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=25577 Knight takes prawn. Prawn resists at first, but eventually the two settle down and live happily ever after. -- Mauro Diotallevi Hey, Harry, you haven't done anything useful for a while -- you be the god of jello now. -- Patricia Wrede, 8/16/2006 on rasfc ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
