I really enjoyed "The Eight". It made a 12 hour flight pass very easily.David Lettington wrote:I know that novels are slightly off topic here, but I also enjoyed the Queen's Gambit. My absolute favourite chess related novel is "Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw" by Thomas Glavinic, but there's also "The Luneberg Variation" by Paolo Maurensig, "The Royal Game" by Stefan Zweig (I noticed it was recently re-packaged as "Chess"), "The Flanders Panel" by Arturo Perez-Reverte, "The Chess Players" by Frances Parkinson Keyes and "The Eight" by Katherine Neville.Arshad Ali wrote: To date this is the best novel I know of (on chess).
I've also seen the Luzhin defence, although it doesn't exactly portray a good image of chess players