elmmountchess.com


This section of the website is for chess-related pieces of interest - it can be fiction , humour, etc.

Learning Chess in World War II - (added April 2012)

Marcel Duchamp - a French chess player and artist (Added Oct 2011)

Chess and the Law - an extract from the New Yorker

A poem by Jorge Luis Borges on a chess theme

A review of the favourite chess books of various players of all standards (mostly from Elm Mount!).

An extract from the novel Murphy by Samuel Beckett featuring an unusual chess game.

Two poems by Primo Levi with a chess theme.

The first contribution is The Quiet Game, a story by Oliver Dunne.