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
A History of Chess untranslated from their original languages (medieval forms of French and German and Spanish etc.). Murray's companion work was "A History of Board-Games other than Chess" . He also wrote "A Short History of Chess", published in 1963. In the words of Daniel E. O'Sullivan, David Shenk writes in "The Immortal Game": A History of Chess The book A History of Chess was written by H. J. R. Murray (1868–1955) and published in 1913. Murray's aim is threefold: to present as complete a record as is possible of the varieties of chess that exist or have existed in different parts of