Chess set pieces have featured in many books, movies and television series, often as a statement of how complicated and challenging the situation is to characters in the plot.
Roger Moore, for example, in an episode of the 1971 - 1972 television series 'The Persuaders,' used chess set pieces to demonstrate the line of accession in his aristocratic family - and who had been bumped off by a murderer so far.
But perhaps one of the most suitable uses of the image of chess is in the John le Carre spy thriller 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy,' recently made into an enthralling movie.
At one stage, chess set pieces are used to represent those suspected of reason, complete with a name label attached to the appropriate piece.
The image is carefully considered as the book and movie is a spy thriller with little violence but instead the characters play a real life chess set with each other.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, the film's star, Gary Oldman said, "There are no real car chases, rather it's like a high-stakes chess game with everyone watching how the other person moves."
The movie is filmed in a way that feels like you are eavesdropping on what is going on, an atmosphere reminiscent of both the book and the television series too. Since the background of the plot is the Cold War, this is appropriate as the situation between East and West could be said to be a continuing game of chess right up until it all ceased in 1989. Indeed, there has been some evidence that it still goes on now.
So once you buy a chess set and start to play an opponent with the chess set pieces, you might reflect on how many times life and death situations have had parallels with the game.
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