Chess in the arts
Appearance
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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
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- 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