Shelby Lyman on Chess: Hollywood Hustle Sunday, June 21, 2015 (Published in print: Sunday, June 21, 2015) Among the chess curiosities of the ’30s and ’40s were the large number of Hollywood stars who played the royal game. Their...
The White Knight
A writer who disappears into his charactersJIM BARTLEYJanuary 26, 2008IN A MISTBy Devon CodeInvisible, 126 pages, $14.95 Code turns Humphrey Bogart’s real-life chess habit to good advantage in The White Knight. A “chess-metaphor theorist” relates the tale of his...