On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:28:20 -0800 (PST), help bot
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On Nov 24, 12:34 am, Mike Murray wrote:

So, whadya think of Francis Parkinson Keyes' "The Chess Players"?
Seriously, I have so many chess books that I can hardly locate
them all; this title sounds vaguely familiar,

Not a chess book per se. It's a fictional treatment of Morphy's life
-- so it has some Civil War stuff.

Ah, fiction. Does it include the story about "women's
shoes",

Not as I remember, but it comes up with an explanation for Morphy's
madness -- he found the love of his life beaten to death.


I read it in high school.

That was then, this is now.

If now is what you want, we should be looking for connections between
chess and Iraq.