Isaac Asimov and chess
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 2:25 am
Came across some references to chess in the works of science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov, including the following two examples from 'Pebble in the Sky' (1950):
https://www.chessvariants.com/fiction.d ... simov.html
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1090575,
Boris Verlinsky vs Grigory Levenfish
USSR Championship (1924)
Asimov mentions in his 'Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor' that someone wrote to him saying that they had written in to a chess magazine about this game from 1924 being used by Asimov. Though you have to remember that Asimov was writing in 1950 and using a game from 26 years earlier. We are more distant from the era in which Asimov was writing than he was from the 1920s.
https://www.chessvariants.com/fiction.d ... simov.html
The plot involves a game of chess, and Asimov used a famous one, which I found here:Chess, somehow, hadn't changed, except for the names of the pieces. It was as he remembered it, and therefore it was always a comfort to him. At least, in this one respect, his poor memory did not play him false. Grew told him of variations of chess. [...]
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1090575,
Boris Verlinsky vs Grigory Levenfish
USSR Championship (1924)
Asimov mentions in his 'Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor' that someone wrote to him saying that they had written in to a chess magazine about this game from 1924 being used by Asimov. Though you have to remember that Asimov was writing in 1950 and using a game from 26 years earlier. We are more distant from the era in which Asimov was writing than he was from the 1920s.