Books with "Living Chess"

paradoxosalpha: Like Poliphilo, Alice plays chess in her dreams.

paradoxosalpha: Clearly derived from the Hypnerotomachia.

paradoxosalpha: I haven't read this one yet, but I must!

paradoxosalpha: It's Martian chess, or Jetan, of course--but the title still says "Chessmen." A seminal living chess arena battle.

paradoxosalpha: Features an enigmatic ages-spanning conspiracy constructed around chess.

paradoxosalpha: Probably the earliest instance of the trope: the chess ballet in the court of Queen Eleuterylida.

paradoxosalpha: Takes place in the "Antipodes," an island country populated by animate game pieces.

paradoxosalpha: Epigrams for each chapter give the chess perspective. The earliest espionage-as-chess novel?

paradoxosalpha: Riffing on Through the Looking-Glass, this volume finds September promoted from Knight to Bishop, now in her "slantwise" struggle with the Queen of Fairyland-Beneath, who is her own own severed shadow.

paradoxosalpha: Somewhat secondhand, by way of Through the Looking-Glass, but with fairy chess yet! A countess is a piece with a double knight's move (201).

paradoxosalpha: Unfortunately, the chess adventure was over by the end of the eighth chapter out of twenty.