I thought it was Shea returning to speak with me on some matter of tomorrow's work but when I raised my eyes to the doorway that connects the two rooms While thus profitably employed I heard the east door of the living-room open and someone enter. Shea had gone to bed and I should have followed suit, for we are always in the saddle here before sunrise but instead I sat there before the chess table in the library, idly blowing smoke at the is honored head of my defeated king. Shea had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as usual, I had gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might by twitting him with this indication of failing mentality by calling his attention to the nth time to that theory, propounded by certain scientists, which is based upon the assertion that phenomenal chess players are always found to be from the ranks of children under twelve, adults over seventy-two or the mentally defective-a theory that is lightly ignored upon those rare occasions that I win. The relevant aspect of this book was the invention, and presentation in great detail, of a chess variant, Martian Chess or Jetan.īurroughs introduced the game Jetan right in the introduction (but goes into greater detail later in the book and in the appendix) : It was published in book form the following year. The Chessmen of Mars was a 6-part story published in the pulp-fiction magazine, Argosy on Feb. The first was an article called, " Is There Chess on Mars?" by Taylor Kingston and the second was an e-text of the book itself. Serendipitously, I ran across two distinct references to this book in as many days. The Chessmen of Mars, the fifth title in the series, is the reason for this posting.
#Enochian chess regardie series#
This series includes the following titles :
It's this series called the Barsoom Series that concerns us at the moment. Most remembered for his Tarzan tales, his John Carter stories weren't far behind.
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It's only fitting that the planet named for him would develop the most war-like variation of the Chess, itself a game of war.Įdgar Rice Burroughs was an extremely prolific and popular author in the fantasy genre.
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