It doesn’t matter how good Artemis is (and there’s no reason why he can’t win this game, if he actually is extremely good at chess,) six moves is not going to happen. By this I mean that it is technically possible, but that there is no scenario in which it would ever happen barring any ridiculous outside circumstance not described here. Secondly, the much bigger problem is that it’s essentially impossible to beat a chess Grandmaster in six moves. Point is, there’s no reason why his chess skill would be tested rather than his identity. Either he believes Artemis is the real (in-universe) Grandmaster Bashkir (which is very unlikely but, I suppose, possible) or he doesn’t, and the disguise doesn’t work.
The first, and more minor one, is that the list of chess Grandmasters is publicly available, and the checkpoint official would know this. There are two problems with this description. “Once a checkpoint official, himself a chess grandmaster, had doubted their story, until Artemis beat him in six moves.” This even happens in published books! For example, the bestselling second book in the Artemis Fowl series made the following gaffe concerning Artemis Fowl’s impersonation of a Grandmaster “Stefan Bashkir”: Let’s start out with some bad examples, and then work our way towards how to write a great chess scene.Ī lot of problems occur in our first scenario (showing the intelligence of the main character) because it’s overstated or exaggerated. However, there are some common misconceptions that can be cleared up. The main character needs to match wits with the antagonist.Īnd that’s great! Chess can be really useful for showing some of these things, and it can be a great vehicle for tension. The reader needs to know that the main character’s a genius/prodigy.Ģ. Often, when chess is written into a story, it’s because there’s a need for one of the following:ġ. As I think I’ve mentioned on here, I’m an amateur writer, and this week I thought I’d put up a post I originally wrote elsewhere on writing fictional scenes with chess in them. Still working on some other stuff, and since it’s post-Labor Day here in the States, it’s been a little busy. Hello, and welcome to the only chess blog on the internet that’s written in the school library.
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