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The novel and cinema, the Chess

In a similar registry, you can glimpse that chess is a Who does not know more Through the Looking Glass (1871).

In this second part of Alice in Wonderland , Lewis Carroll uses numerous references to chess and places Alicia in the role of a white pawn advances to be crowned queen and win heading. But not only Carrol.

Robert Chambers (1865-1933) in "A Matter of Interest", Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton (1831-1891) in "The Chess-Board", Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), in "A Pair of Blue Eyes, "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) on Checkmate and Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) in The Devil That Troubled the Chessboard "," Murders in the Rue Morgue "and" Maelzel's Chess Player "use chess as an essential element of the plot.

We have chosen as example for the book "The Chess Player" (also called "Moxon's Master"), a tale about a robot that Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) conceived in 1909 because in some ways is a kind of culmination period and defines a way of using chess to warn naive about the dangers of science.

Of course, almost needless to say, the chess literature that refers to the game, "explode" in the last century, the twentieth. Among Sholom Aleichem who wrote "From Passover to Succeed" in 1907 or "The three sailors Gambit" (1916) by Lord Dunsany and some of the most powerful science fiction stories ever written as "The bedlam of 64 pictures" of Fritz Leiber, (1962) and "The Unicorn variant" by Roger Zelazny (1981) there are countless works of artists whose focus is egregious chess.

To cite just a few, La Defense (1930) Navokov Vadimir Russian, is the story of a chess grandmaster Luzhin who is called a balance while playing, but in everyday life is a kind of emotional cripple.

Another good example is a short novel by Stefan Zweig Austrian Jew who wrote the Chess player in 1941, arguably the best game text has been drawn to the deep meaning of the game, using it to describe a situation of maximum psychological stress .

A recent example of stories about chess is the best-selling novel of the English police Arturo Perez-Reverte, The Flanders Panel (1990). In chess it is used by a murderer who leaves clues of its next steps through the development of a game.

could go on accumulating authors and works, what that would not be bad, given that its usefulness as a reading guide would not be under discussion-but it is preferable to use the space to point to what the reader will find in the pages.

We have already mentioned the works 'historical': Rabelais, Bierce. But as the purpose of this anthology is presented as a living testimony of what the chess can bring to the literature, we dump the bulk of the load in contemporary texts.

In "Zugzwang" Rodolfo Walsh puts into the mouth of one of its characters, the retired commissioner Laurenzi, a word to define narrowly the idea behind the writer when you move your characters to settings similar to those of chess. "But there was something worse, something indefinable and sinister, something that looked like, I would say to a game two symmetrical and equally doomed. The other plane, you see a personal level, developed in struggle."

Walsh explores the lines connecting the symbolic universe of chess and the real world and described the intrusion of the game in people's behavior. Abelardo Castillo, "The question of the lady in the Max Lange" seems to proceed in reverse when recounts the use by a player of the codes governing the tournaments to resolve a personal life. And the character Castillo did not stop there: its logic in life is the game. Isolate, block, delete is perfect terms in either universe. Both are worth to remove a particularly troublesome bishop or an unfaithful wife ...

among the many languages \u200b\u200bthat have created human beings, expressions and grammars own peculiar syntax, with various skill levels, with subtle but profound differences in their understanding. That is why one can assume that the most talented player sinks when it is proposed away from the board to anticipate the moves of others.

For a chess player who writes (or a writer who plays chess), it is very difficult to avoid temptation offering "the other plane, rejecting the urge to travel the maze regardless of risk. "Variants", these endless ramifications that spread out from the very beginning of the game, these grids are possible, the route of the pieces, forming networks, such as tissues, such as text, such as landscapes, are in themselves fictions. Each move is potentially a fiction, without pettiness or ungrudgingly.

Some of those possibilities unfold in the following pages, a variety of choices and at times antagonistic. The reader will find the aforementioned episode of the Inca Atahualpa and his captors (and future murderers) English. Here chess is the excuse. But glimpse the possibility of rewriting history. What would have happened if the Inca, anticipating the play of Pizarro, had moved their parts otherwise? Is there more than one way to move?

The answer is given a long, almost endless disputing parties a rustic rural Iranians and a powerful player who lives in another solar system. This would have been considered science fiction in another time, but not now. Here the fantasy is tied to the rules of pure naturalism.

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How aberrations such as repression, torture and humiliation with a game of chess? The game can link the distant past episodes, the recent past and foreseeable future. Again, the chess is the glue that binds times and memories, but also the mirror eyewitness.

remains a space for poetry. A blue tone, the investigation of the vacuum, the depth calculation. The pieces move back and forth, jump and float to be removed from the game, time is a flight space, an allegory.

Y is a space for wonder: a pair of glasses that always show the best play-by who looks through them. But do we ever know what is the best move?
The moves can be slow as the empires, ride the centuries, generations pass in a game that time threads in its meaning less reliable. What if we were prisoners of a game like that, who dispute the invisible God? We've all done a fantastic question, not for vain is less fatal. In search of an answer invoke, provoke and imprecations. But we may be deaf to the logic of replication.

why I left Borges to go, because I know the King and Queen faint bitter miracle could take over the rigors of God behind God, who began the story of dust and time and dream and agony. And they could do because Borges, lazy, aloof, he just planted his work of subtle references chess, but never wanted or knew how to write a story "of" chess. This is not criticism or prejudice, perhaps not seen in the trajectories that flutters faint and insubstantial or not care about the area in which colors are hateful. Javier Vargas Pereira, entomologist with patience, picked each track and articulated in a kind of fictitious map, a guide to cover a territory that, strictly speaking the truth, almost nonexistent.

A journey, a journey. As the inexorable pawn who dreams of being queen, as the tower that you want to viciously beat the walls of the enemy. All, all, real and imagined, not knowing that the hand designated player rules their destiny.