"Sterten" wrote in message
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"Sterten" wrote in message
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sorry, I have no more info about the game.
This is from the novel "the eight" by K.Neville ,
where the action of the novel is apparantly
emulated by that chessgame.
So, maybe you get some more clues by reading the book,
but I doubt it.

Alternatively, can someone send me the games
of the candiates tournaments in ASCII ,
so I can write a program to check for these conditions ?

Bob Musicant answered:

As implied by one of the other answers in this thread, there would be no
reason to expect that Neville would necessarily have used a Candidates'
game
as the model for one in her book. Her chess knowledge was not
impressive.

She read some autobiographies of chess masters.
According to the review in the St. Paul Pioneer Press-Dispatch, the Game
in The

Eight is based on a real chess game which was played in a world
championship.
Katherine Neville won't tell people which game it is, but she says she
"chose
one that had the most moves in it and tailored the plot to that game. If
you
understand chess, you can figure out what game it is, what grand master
played
it and in what year."

Neville:
"Clue: it was a game used in international world-champion level
competition, in

which a black pawn, protected by a knight (Solarin) and a rook (Nim)
approaches

the queening square, and white concedes."

Was this presented as a an actual game in the novel, or does she relate the
actions of the human characters to the game?