Chess in the arts Poul Anderson's short story "Immortal Game", inspired by the 1851 game played by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky (which also appears in the film "Blade Runner"); or Waldemar Łysiak's "Szachista" (), centered on a game played between Napoleon Bonaparte and The Turk. The game Frank Poole versus HAL 9000 from the film "" is also based on an actual match, albeit not widely known. Other artists drawn their inspirations from the life of players. Vladimir Nabokov wrote "The Defense" after learning about Curt von Bardeleben, while the musical "Chess" was loosely based on the life of Bobby Fischer. Some authors
Soldier at a Game of Chess échecs" ("Soldier at a Game of Chess") from the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago to Lodève. For the occasion of an exhibition titled "Imaging/Imagining the Human Body in Anatomical Representation", March 25 – June 20, 2014 at the Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, "Soldier at a Game of Chess" was exhibited alongside an X-ray composite based on Metzinger's painting. The aim of the exhibition was to reveal the interdependence between representations of human anatomy through biomedicine's imaging technology and imaginings in the creative art's.<ref name="Imaging/Imagining">Imaging/Imagining the Human Body in Anatomical Representation, The University of Chicago, Smart