Stories I'd like to see...

Kurt Vonnegut has a short story;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_King%27s_Horses_%28story%29

The Pawn Identity

Originally posted by bosintang
Kurt Vonnegut has a short story;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_King%27s_Horses_%28story%29

The story takes place in the early years of the Cold War and centers on a U.S. Army Colonel, Bryan Kelly, whose plane has been shot down in the Asiatic mainland. With him are his two sons, his wife, the pilot and co-pilot, and ten enlisted men. The sixteen prisoners are held captive by the Chinese officer Pi Ying, who forces Kelly to play a game of chess — using his family and men as the pieces. If he can defeat Pi Ying in the battle of wits, then the sixteen captives are free to go, except there is one catch: every American piece who is captured will be executed immediately. This leads to a moral dilemma for Kelly as he is forced to make decisions with the lives of everyone hanging in balance.

Brilliant!
So - which piece would you be?

That sounds great, definitely going to read it.

If I couldn't be the king then I'd definitely be a rook.

Originally posted by Uries
The Pawn Identity

The Pawn Supremacy

Moby Rook

A farewell to pawns.

spawn (Martin Sheen)

and of course, 'spawn of the dead'

Dude Where's My Queen

one more.... ' a star is pawn' !

ok fans...

pawn on the 4th of July, pawn free and definitely the last, Captain Horatio Pawnblower.

I thang yo'

and goodnight.

Originally posted by michael liddle
ok fans...

pawn on the 4th of July, pawn free and definitely the last, Captain Horatio Pawnblower.

I thang yo'

and goodnight.

Is there room for "Pawn with the Wind"?

Originally posted by greenpawn34
There are 1000's of books which have chess as the background.
OK a slight exageration....there are 100's....Well OK perhaps 5.

But these 5 are good.

Actually they are crap.

The 'true' stories about real chess players are far better.
Morphy, Alekhine, FIscher and you get the bonus of real good games thrown in.

Not made up stuff with illegal ...[text shortened]... ime the debate about weak OTB but good at C.C. crops up
sling that one onto the table.

Any time now someone is going to start a thread with the title "Jack Battell is a known chess abacus user".

The Rook, The King, His Queen, & Her Skewer

(The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover)