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** May be justified, considering that in Wizarding Chess, strategic mastery is only half the game. The other half is successfully gaining the loyalty of your sentient chesspieces such that they'll actually do what you tell them.
* The ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novel ''The Final Reflection'', by [[John M. Ford]], reveals that Klingon military strategy is the province of military "thought admirals", who hone their skills in ''klin zha'' (Klingon chess). The (Klingon) protagonist's father, who is a thought admiral, also studies other races' equivalents of ''klin zha'', including the Human game "chess", to gain insight into the races that play them.
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* Several of [[Raymond Chandler]]'s Philip Marlowe books show Marlowe studying chess problems during his down time. (Although he's never seen playing an actual game, because that would presuppose that he had friends to play with.)
* Sort of played with in the first of Jacques Futrelle's "Thinking Machine" mysteries. The title [[Great Detective]] has never played chess before and doesn't have a high opinion of it, but is somehow able to use his clever reasoning to beat a chess champion on his first try.
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