![]() ![]() (This story is about a chess "computer" more than a century ago.) The last story that may have been in the collection was called The Three Sailors' Gambit which I also may have encountered elsewhere since its author I think (Lord Dunsany) was pretty famous as a writer. ![]() I do think most of the stories in the book were fantasy (the two I listed were) but a third story called Slippery Elm about pre-chess-engine cheating was just humorous (that one was pretty old because the term "vitamin" had to be explained, I think). There have been quite a few chess-themed science fiction or fantasy stories, and even some serious fiction like Nabokov but not so many stories that there could be much more than one such collection. The book therefore was printed no earlier than 1966 and I suspect was no newer than the mid 1970s. I believe this story, from 1953, was in it:Īlso a short story called Von Goom's Gambit which was from 1966.īoth of the above originally appeared in scifi magazines which is why I think I read them in a book - I did not read them in an old magazine. One was a collection of chess-themed fiction. I knew the librarian in a smallish town who was a chess player and so he curated a pretty good set of chess books. ![]()
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