Originally posted by luctrucThat's one of the main works of fiction on chess, but surprisingly, I've never read it. I have read Nabakov's "The Luzhin Defense." It was pretty good -- they even made a movie about it (not so good). The main character is sort of an amalgam of Alekhine, Reshevsky and Rubinstein.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Game