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Games that are famous because of their underlying story
How GM Bernstein saved his life from the Sovjet Secret Service by game of a chess: From third hard, so perhaps apocryphal.
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Do clearly fictive games count? One word: Mate of Dilaram. (A very old Mansuba - chess problem - by As-Suli. This works because Mansubas were very game-like. A prince bets his favorite harem dame ...
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