Cuentos, jaques y leyendas

The artist Marcel Duchamp abandoned his creative desire to dedicate himself body and soul to the sixty-four squares.

In Cadaqués, the Frenchman played many afternoons with the writer Rosa Regàs. The magic of play-science also caught up with Humphrey Bogart. So much so that his compulsive hobby was about to change the end of Casablanca.

The cantaor Enrique Morente, Miguel de Unamuno, John Wayne, Stanley Kubrick, Ernesto Che Guevara and Vladimir Nabokov also fell under the same checkered influence.

Inside the board, of the game as competition, the history of chess has been written thanks to extraordinary chapters, such as that of Sultan Khan, an Indian servant who managed to be champion of an empire; or that of Sonja Graf, the chess player who played dressed as a man to live in full freedom.

Cuentos, jaques y leyendas presents us with a compilation of thirty articles published in Diario Sur by the journalist Manuel Azuaga. In them all kinds of characters and stories parade in black and white, fantastic and literary lives that will make him approach chess as he would never have imagined.