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• 7 • Introduction (Chess in Literature) • essay by Marcello Truzzi
• 54 • Mated at Last • short story by Daniel Willard Fiske
• 85 • A Mixed Proposal • (1901) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 97 • Exchange of Men • (1946) • short story by Joseph Cross
• 110 • Exile to Hell • (1968) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 152 • Pawn to King's Four • short story by Stephen Leacock
• 161 • Von Goom's Gambit • (1966) • short story by Victor Contoski
• 167 • The Chessplayers • (1953) • short story by Charles L. Harness
• 184 • A Chess Problem • short story by Agatha Christie
• 197 • The Chess Partner • short story by Theodore Mathieson
• 205 • The Moriarty Gambit • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 218 • Fool's Mate • (1951) • short story by Stanley Ellin
• 254 • A Letter from the Land of Chess • short story by Daniel Willard Fiske
• 259 • The Queen of the Red Chessmen • (1858) • novelette by Lucretia P. Hale
• 284 • Bishop's Gambit • (1947) • short story by August Derleth [as by Stephen Grendon]
• 310 • The Three Sailors' Gambit • (1916) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 322 • The Chess-Player • short story by Anonymous
• 345 • Maelzel's Chess-Player • (1836) • essay by Edgar Allan Poe
• 370 • Moxon's Master • (1899) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 381 • The 64-Square Madhouse • (1962) • novelette by Fritz Leiber