Chess in the arts

Honoré Daumier, The Chess Players

Chess plays a central or symbolic role in the following creations of arts and literature:

In Literature

• A Game of Chess is the name of one of the sections in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
• Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
• Striding Folly, a short story by Dorothy L. Sayers (1939)
• Lord Loss
• Quarantine, a short story by Arthur C. Clarke. (The story, in its entirety, can be read here.)
• "Wizard's Chess" in the Harry Potter book and film series.
• All the King's Horses, a short story by Kurt Vonnegut from 'Welcome to the Monkey House'
• Forbidden Planet (1961), a novel written by Lionel Fanthorpe using the pseudonym John E. Muller (unconnected to the 1956 film of the same title)
• The Eight, a novel by Katherine Neville (1998)
• The Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig
• The Tower Struck By Lightning by Fernando Arrabal
• The Lüneberg Variation by Paolo Maurensig
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

In Painting

• I Giocatori di Scacchi (The Chess Players), ca. 1590, by Ludovico Carracci
• Arabes jouant aux échecs (Arabs Playing Chess), 1847, by Eugène Delacroix
• Les Joueurs d'échecs (The Chess Players), 1863, by Honoré Daumier
• La famille du peintre, 1911, by Henri Matisse
• Portrait de joueurs d'echecs (Portrait of Chess Players), 1911, by Marcel Duchamp
• Femme à côté d'un échiquier, 1928, by Henri Matisse
• Super Chess, 1937, by Paul Klee

In Film and television

• Knights of the South Bronx
• Searching for Bobby Fischer
• The Luzhin Defence
• The Lewis chessmen also inspired Noggin the Nog
• Shatranj Ke Khiladi, The Chess Players, is a 1977 film by Bengali director Satyajit Ray
• Knight Moves
• Twin Peaks
• The Seventh Seal
• Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey- The Immortal Game between a malfunctioning HAL 9000 and an astronaut
• The Shawshank Redemption
• X-Men and X-Men: The Last Stand

• Fresh, a 1994 film
• Superman: Red Son, a reimagining of the American icon as a Soviet hero
• Tridimensional Chess featured in several episodes of the various Star Trek series
• The episode "The End" from X-files series
• The Prisoner television series features outdoor chess using people as pieces
• Geri's Game, a Pixar short featuring an old man playing chess with himself.
• Last Exile, the anime. All the episodes are named after Chess moves.
• Revolver, a film by Guy Ritchie
• Blade Runner-The Immortal Game between replicant Rutger Hauer and his Creator
• Land of the Giants-an episode {2/#4} "Deadly Pawn" features the castaways as chess pieces in a game for their lives.

Others

• Checkmate, a ballet by the composer Arthur Bliss
• Chess, a musical by Tim Rice and Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA

External links

• 136 Chess paintings