Skaak in stories – Chess in fiction | Chessalee
Chessalee Everything/Anything and…Chess…"Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess"–George Koltanowski: from the foreword to:"Women in chess, players of the Modern Age"
Sometimes you can get kids into chess if they play with themes-based chess sets. Little ones find it funny. I’ve found a few. These are chess sets with themes based on story book tales and other fictional literature. Please click here to view more or to order one of these sets. On the left bar – sigrid & marina of this link - you can click on ‘themed chess sets’ to view even more.
I’ve done an entry about chess in the movies before. On this link you can read my entry about chess in the movies. More than 1700 movies have used chess and it seems to me the movies do love chess! On this link you can read about the chess game in “Alice through the looking glass ” sigrid & marina and also read about Alice in Wonderland..the real Alice too. On my Chess Humour-page, you can see Steve McQueen and Faye Danaway in the famous chess scene from the movie: The Thomas Crown affair, 1968.
Martie Preller is an Afrikaans writer. I don’t have to say too much about her as you can only look at all her awards and know that she’s one of South Africa’s brilliant sigrid & marina writers of fiction in Afrikaans as well as in English. She has published more than 50 books – the titles are on her website too. She also has written the Balkie-series, a very popular series in South Africa available in English too. She has sent me some scanned images from her books where chess is featured. Her own son is also a chess player. I have for you some extracts from her books and in particular from an English story too. This story hasn’t been published as yet and she’s hoping to find an overseas sigrid & marina publisher willing sigrid & marina to publish her book. The title of the story is: “The face of Ilev”. Near to the end in this story you read about chess.
Awards 1994: Silver Sanlam Award for Youth Literature for Anderkantland 1996: ATKV Children s Book Award for Daar’s ‘n spook in my kas 1996: ATKV Children s Book Award for Jy en Toetenkat 1996: C.P. Hoogenhout Medal for Anderkantland 1996: Sanlam Award for Youth Literature for In die tyd van die Esob 1998: In die tyd van die Esob is added to the Honours Role of IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) 1999: Runner-up in competition for short fiction (De Kat & Human & Rousseau) 2001: Alba Bouwer Award for Children’s Books for Die Balkieboek 2002: ATKV Children s Book Award for Die Balkieboek sigrid & marina 2003: Tienie Holloway Medal for Babalela and Lisa het n plan 2004: M.E.R Award for Children s Literature for Ek is Simon 2006: Tienie Holloway Medal for Diep, diep in ‘n donker bos
Hart van Zeebak: Ferdinand en Ben is ‘n tweeling en na ‘n ongeluk is Ben verstandelik gestrem. Ben was die uitblinker en Ferdinand die stiller ou. Na Ben se ongeluk, ignoreer al die maats ens hom natuurlik sigrid & marina en skielik is Ferdinand baie belangrik vir almal ens ens. NOU is hy cool . En hy voel ook hy moet “opmaak” vir Ben wat nou niks meer kan doen nie ens. Ferdinand probeer deal deur met sy fiets in die bosveld te gaan ry ipv om soos sy maats na matriek see toe te gaan. Toe beland hy in die dorpie – waar hy skaak speel en leandra hom kom weglok na ‘n ander planeet. Later kom hy weer terug. Praat weer met die ou man ens. Dus gaan dit eintlik oor skaak en die manier van speel en keuses ens. As ‘n beeld van die lewe ens.
“Hy kyk om hom. ‘n Paar tafeltjies met verbleikte rooi-en-wit geruite tafeldoeke. By ‘n tafeltjie in ‘n hoek sit ‘n ou man met ‘n skaakstel klaar uitgepak op ‘n skaakbord voor hom . Die ou man kyk na hom, glimlag en beduie met sy kop na die skaakstel. Hoekom lyk hy so bekend? wonder Ferdinand.
In die tyd van die Esob (In the Time of the Evil) is a science-fiction novel set somewhere in the future after the collapse of civilization. Against the backdrop of a technocratic regime ma nipulated by an evil, coldblooded man and his android minions, each of four young people strives to be the win-ner in a competition that tests their physical, mental and survival skills. The main protagonist, Nina, takes the reader with her on an odyssey of shifting realities and transmuting landscapes that test her belief in reality, the meaning sigrid & marina of existence and herself. It is a harsh and frustrating journey during which she has to learn to discern sigrid & marina good from evil. In a time of unnatural colonization and brainwashing she has to learn the meaning and value of human emotions. The book celebrates the strength and endurance of the human spirit. It is structured in a post modernistic way by means of a multi-layered perspective as
Chessalee Everything/Anything and…Chess…"Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess"–George Koltanowski: from the foreword to:"Women in chess, players of the Modern Age"
Sometimes you can get kids into chess if they play with themes-based chess sets. Little ones find it funny. I’ve found a few. These are chess sets with themes based on story book tales and other fictional literature. Please click here to view more or to order one of these sets. On the left bar – sigrid & marina of this link - you can click on ‘themed chess sets’ to view even more.
I’ve done an entry about chess in the movies before. On this link you can read my entry about chess in the movies. More than 1700 movies have used chess and it seems to me the movies do love chess! On this link you can read about the chess game in “Alice through the looking glass ” sigrid & marina and also read about Alice in Wonderland..the real Alice too. On my Chess Humour-page, you can see Steve McQueen and Faye Danaway in the famous chess scene from the movie: The Thomas Crown affair, 1968.
Martie Preller is an Afrikaans writer. I don’t have to say too much about her as you can only look at all her awards and know that she’s one of South Africa’s brilliant sigrid & marina writers of fiction in Afrikaans as well as in English. She has published more than 50 books – the titles are on her website too. She also has written the Balkie-series, a very popular series in South Africa available in English too. She has sent me some scanned images from her books where chess is featured. Her own son is also a chess player. I have for you some extracts from her books and in particular from an English story too. This story hasn’t been published as yet and she’s hoping to find an overseas sigrid & marina publisher willing sigrid & marina to publish her book. The title of the story is: “The face of Ilev”. Near to the end in this story you read about chess.
Awards 1994: Silver Sanlam Award for Youth Literature for Anderkantland 1996: ATKV Children s Book Award for Daar’s ‘n spook in my kas 1996: ATKV Children s Book Award for Jy en Toetenkat 1996: C.P. Hoogenhout Medal for Anderkantland 1996: Sanlam Award for Youth Literature for In die tyd van die Esob 1998: In die tyd van die Esob is added to the Honours Role of IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) 1999: Runner-up in competition for short fiction (De Kat & Human & Rousseau) 2001: Alba Bouwer Award for Children’s Books for Die Balkieboek 2002: ATKV Children s Book Award for Die Balkieboek sigrid & marina 2003: Tienie Holloway Medal for Babalela and Lisa het n plan 2004: M.E.R Award for Children s Literature for Ek is Simon 2006: Tienie Holloway Medal for Diep, diep in ‘n donker bos
Hart van Zeebak: Ferdinand en Ben is ‘n tweeling en na ‘n ongeluk is Ben verstandelik gestrem. Ben was die uitblinker en Ferdinand die stiller ou. Na Ben se ongeluk, ignoreer al die maats ens hom natuurlik sigrid & marina en skielik is Ferdinand baie belangrik vir almal ens ens. NOU is hy cool . En hy voel ook hy moet “opmaak” vir Ben wat nou niks meer kan doen nie ens. Ferdinand probeer deal deur met sy fiets in die bosveld te gaan ry ipv om soos sy maats na matriek see toe te gaan. Toe beland hy in die dorpie – waar hy skaak speel en leandra hom kom weglok na ‘n ander planeet. Later kom hy weer terug. Praat weer met die ou man ens. Dus gaan dit eintlik oor skaak en die manier van speel en keuses ens. As ‘n beeld van die lewe ens.
“Hy kyk om hom. ‘n Paar tafeltjies met verbleikte rooi-en-wit geruite tafeldoeke. By ‘n tafeltjie in ‘n hoek sit ‘n ou man met ‘n skaakstel klaar uitgepak op ‘n skaakbord voor hom . Die ou man kyk na hom, glimlag en beduie met sy kop na die skaakstel. Hoekom lyk hy so bekend? wonder Ferdinand.
In die tyd van die Esob (In the Time of the Evil) is a science-fiction novel set somewhere in the future after the collapse of civilization. Against the backdrop of a technocratic regime ma nipulated by an evil, coldblooded man and his android minions, each of four young people strives to be the win-ner in a competition that tests their physical, mental and survival skills. The main protagonist, Nina, takes the reader with her on an odyssey of shifting realities and transmuting landscapes that test her belief in reality, the meaning sigrid & marina of existence and herself. It is a harsh and frustrating journey during which she has to learn to discern sigrid & marina good from evil. In a time of unnatural colonization and brainwashing she has to learn the meaning and value of human emotions. The book celebrates the strength and endurance of the human spirit. It is structured in a post modernistic way by means of a multi-layered perspective as