Did this idea come purely out of fiction, or did some monarch practice it as a real thing?
Earliest prose use of the trope known to me: ERB's 1922 THE CHESSMEN OF MARS.
Earliest cinematic use: 1943's SHERLOCK HOLMES FACES DEATH. This one was based on Doyle's "Musgrave Ritual," but my memory-- which I choose not to check this time-- is that there's no big chessboard, or a simulation thereof, in the short prose story.
Earliest prose use of the trope known to me: ERB's 1922 THE CHESSMEN OF MARS.
Earliest cinematic use: 1943's SHERLOCK HOLMES FACES DEATH. This one was based on Doyle's "Musgrave Ritual," but my memory-- which I choose not to check this time-- is that there's no big chessboard, or a simulation thereof, in the short prose story.
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