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Any entertaining books about chess?
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There’s a Hugo winning short story by Roger Zelazny called “Unicorn Variation.”
“ In an abandoned saloon, a man and a unicorn play chess. The fate of humanity is at stake. A Sasquatch aids the human.”
The game they play follows one played by Halprin and Pillsbury in Munich, 1900.