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Chess players are the Villains

One of my friends gave me several books last week. I have many books, but there always seems to be room for more. So I took a look – these were novels. In general, I have not read many novels Police although I admit to a weakness for the representation of Stacy Keach TV detective Mike Hammer, and of course Sherlock Holmes. Nevertheless, I took one long for some summer reading potential. The incident reminds me of the image of the chess player in the modern detective novel. Well that probably quite unjustified, the chess players are generally cast as the baddies. Here is some history that led to that reputation.

Edgar Allen Poe is known for having written the first detective story in the modern style with Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841). Poe uses the pattern of failures in some of his works, but it is clear with little technical expertise and not like much. He cited the game as "frivolous" and compared him unfavorably with the ladies. It was Edgar Allen Poe, who started the image the amateur chess almost as bad as semi-human machine with many plans and few emotions.

The Grandmaster first modern detective novel should be Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes wrote his famous stories about fifty years after Poe's work. While opinion Doyle personal chess is not known, it plays to the prejudices of its readers and limit its references to chess and his bandits villains. In "The Adventure of the Retired Colourman" (about 1898), as the hero is a passionate chess player who murders his chess partner unscrupulous. Although Doyle uses the movements of chess into the story to foreshadow action in history, Holmes also uses chess as a clue to solve the murder. Holmes says that the interest of Chess is "[a brand], Watson, a scheming mind. "

One of expertise over a recountings Chess in a detective novel written by agatha christie in four (1927). In this story, a chess master was assassinated by a strong electric shock treated him in the third move of its Ruy Lopez opening. In anticipation of its opening, the connection electical was rigged to the squares on the map through the floor of the apartment below. Unlike the other two stories mentioned here chess Agatha Christie is the victim, not the wicked schemer.

Ian Fleming describes one of his villains in From Russia With Love (1957) as a great Russian master, but the description of the actual chess is absurd and incidental to the story.

It seems that chess players have a negative image in modern novels. Chess players are represented as the bad guys, more often than not. It is curious that Sherlock Holmes was not presented as a chess player himself, having Given its penchant for logical thinking.

About the author

Ann Wamack is a freelance writer for www.ChessRight.com website, an online chess store with many unique chess sets suitable for all skill levels. She lives in Arkansas with her husband and teenage daughter.

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