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Many writers view chess players as not just brilliant, but also mad as a hatter. As a result, this trope shows up in various works featuring chess or similar games such as Go. Expect rants about conspiracies against the player, bizarre and borderline-OCD match behavior (such as demanding that spectators be seated in a symmetrical manner around the board, or throwing out people whose watches are ticking a bit too noticeably), and, in some cases, violent rage (culminating in flipping the board) or total depression. Expect someone to proclaim at one point that 'It's only a game!', and more often than not, the madman will disagree. There are a few different reasons for this trope. Some writers may genuinely believe it, or may be alluding to specific Real Life players who were known for being a bit off. Others may be trying to develop An Aesop about the dangers of obsessions; the mad player in this case is almost always someone who spends almost all their time in isolation studying the game. It can also be shown to demonstrate the character's (usually a villain) psychopathy: they view people as pieces to be manipulated on a chessboard. There could also be anti-intellectual messages; if smart people play chess and chess players are nuts, then smart people in general must be crazy. Expect the effect to be greatly intensified when certain chess variants are played instead, such as 3D chess, chess with a round board, chess with many new pieces, chess where you can't see your opponents pieces, 4-player chess, and even chess with random (and shifting) rules. |
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Geri's Game: Geri is an eccentric old man who plays chess by himself. | |
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The Queen's Gambit: downplayed, but Beth suffers from a combination of possible eridetary mental illness, and a traumatic childhood from growing up in an orphanage where she developed an addiction to tranquilizers. Other players she meets tend to be more on the Bunny-Ears Lawyer end of the spectrum, and historical examples of real Chess Grand Mastrs that went insane are discussed. | |
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Freddie Trumper in Chess. In some versions of the play, including the official one, his anti-Soviet rantings at a press conference convince the press as well as most of the Russians that Freddie is delusional. In the Broadway version, he gets worse, with Florence angering him to the point where he goes through a drawn-out breakdown while filming a TV interview. Trumper may be based on Real Life World Champion (and nut) Bobby Fisher. |
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The Cowboy Bebop episode "Bohemian Rhapsody" contains a chess game between an old, senile chess master and Cloudcuckoolander Ed. The game is played over the internet and lasts for days until the chess master wins, and subsequently dies. Overlaps with Smart People Play Chess, as this old senile chess master planned, decades in advance, for several spaceship warp gates to explode out of revenge for the company he worked for at the time that supervised the project. | |
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PandoraHearts has Vincent, though his crazy and chess-playing don't overlap. | |
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent used a mentally damaged chess expert as a villain in one episode. | |
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In the first setting of the Vortex of Madness module of 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons, which is also the Framing Device, the PCs come across a room with a giant mobile chess set and an unusually talkative iron golem, who refers to them as "Baron" and itself as "General". They'll likely assume they have to play chess with it, but if they do, the golem is unsatisfied with the result (even if it wins) and demands a rematch. Eventually, the players are going to lose patience and try fighting it (well, if they don't they'll be stuck playing chess forever) and if they do, it obliges, its chess pieces supporting it and the PC's pieces siding with them; if beaten, the golem finally yields to them before falling apart. (The point? The whole complex is an interpretation of the life of Baron Lum the Mad, who is being held prisoner by his terrible Machine, which is almost as insane. This particular room is the Machine's interpretation of the final battler between Lum and his traitorous General Leuk-O, which ended inconclusively.) | |
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New Tricks: In "The English Defence", UCOS investigates the cold murder of a freelance translator who was a chess master. When it starts to look like it may have been chess that got her killed, they start to look at her rivals. One was a physicist with a genius IQ who lost multiple games to her and became obsessed with defeating her. He finally defeated her in the last match she played before her murder. When the team reveal he cheated in this game, he suffers a complete breakdown. | |
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Herman "The Doctor" Carter of Dead by Daylight has many chess related add-ons, implying he was an avid chess player. He's also an unhinged lunatic, a mind-breaking torturer who flings electricity to drive survivors mad and was already completely amoral and out of his mind even before he was a killer. | |
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On Farscape when Crichton was seeing hallucinations of Scorpius actually a neural clone implanted in his head, mumbling to himself and shooting at things that weren't there, the two of them ended up playing chess. | |
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One Vampire: The Masquerade scenario involves a series of mysterious murders. The people behind it are bored, evil chess players who are using henchmen as pawns and killing them off when their corresponding pawn gets captured. | |
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In X2: X-Men United, Magneto and Professor X play chess at the end. | |
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Windom Earle from Twin Peaks plays chess, when he isn't murdering people and stuffing them in paper-mache pawns. | |
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Batman: The Joker is a brilliant chess player able to consistently beat Ra's al Ghul, Batman's oldest (as in, the most long-lived in-universe) and most strategically sound foe, at chess. | |
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Green Lantern (2011) — Hector Hammond, soon to be infused with yellow fear energy, is first seen playing chess against a computer. | |
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Monk; "Mr. Monk and the Genius" had Monk butting heads with a chess Grandmaster/serial wife murderer. | |
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In The Wheel of Time, Moridin is notes to be a mater of his world's variation on chess. He’s also so off his rocker from use of The Dark Side that his fellow Forsaken admit he’s completely insane. | |
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Pawn Sacrifice is a biopic about Bobby Fischer (cf. Real Life below), focusing on the World Chess Championship 1972 and Fischer growing more and more insane. | |
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The main character in Knight Moves, a chess grandmaster, spends a lot of time as a patient in asylums. | |
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Billy Thatcher in morphE is a chess grandmaster who has some inspiration drawn from Bobby Fischer. His behavior is narcissistic, paranoid and obsessive. He is, however, brilliant. | |
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Mao in Code Geass is crazy enough that he rigs a bomb to detonate and kill Nunally if he wins, in order to force Lelouch to play him. Subverted (or perhaps reinforced) in that he doesn't actually know how to play chess except by reading Lelouch's mind. | |
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In The Eight, one of the minor chess players is like this. When he captures a piece, he demands that a spectator be thrown out so that the room remains 'symmetrical'. | |
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2001: A Space Odyssey: A Genius Bonus for chess enthusiasts is found in the game that HAL 9000 and Poole play; although HAL predicts mate, there's actually a way for Poole to avoid it. A subtle hint at HAL's error-prone nature... | |
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In one FoxTrot strip, Jason and Marcus combine chess with Dungeons & Dragons. ("As if regular chess isn't nerdy enough," sighs Paige.) | |
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In one episode of Leverage, Ford has to play in a speed-chess tournament. His opponents include a guy who sleeps through the whole match and only wakes up in brief spurts to move. He still is trouncing Ford until Sophie intervenes. | |
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Searching for Bobby Fischer: There are some creepy weirdos at the chess club that Josh goes to. Part of the goal of the Waitzkin family is to make sure Josh doesn't turn out like them. | |
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Endgame is about a chess grandmaster who becomes a hikikomori and cannot leave his hotel due to paralyzing fear. | |
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The Laundry Files: One of the short stories sends Bob to do an audit of a rest home for Laundry employees for whom the job has proven to be a bit much, and finds some of the more lucid residents sitting around a chessboard in the common room. They're not using it to play chess, nor are they actually insane, and what they're really up to has created yet another mess for Bob to clean up. | |
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Judge Dredd: Judge Death, who thinks life itself is a crime punishable by death, has been a master at chess since his teens. He doesn't really get around to it anymore after becoming a zombie, though. | |
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Doctor Who: Unsurprisingly, The Doctor plays a game called "Live Chess" with electrified chess pieces in "The Wedding of River Song". With voltage that climbs, sometimes up to over four million volts just to move a piece. Really crazy people play crazy chess. The episode "Nightmare in Silver" has The Doctor playing chess against "Mr. Clever", a Cyber Planner using half the Doctor's own brain and driven to insane levels of Large Ham as he plays The Doctor for control of the rest of his brain. |
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The Cape features a supervillain with multiple personalities. One such personality is called Chess, and he's a sociopathic lunatic who speaks in chess metaphors and has contact lenses that make his eyes look like chess pieces. | |
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Criminal Minds had Caleb Rossmore, a chess champion UnSub who copycatted the Zodiac killer. | |
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In American McGee's Alice, the main character, Alice, starts the game in an insane asylum. She also has to play some chess as she moves through the game, even turning into different pieces at some points. | |
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Ami in Sailor Moon plays an opponent, Berthier, who is such a lunatic that she freezes different parts of Ami's body as Ami loses her pieces. Granted, Berthier was going through a Despair Event Horizon, thinking she was worthless and preparing to die. She eventually Heel Face Turns and loses the 'crazy' part. The manga and Crystal has a chess match between the same opponents, but Berthier is more crazy and less sympathetic: she tries to exploit Ami's fear to distract her into losing the match and used dowsing to decide her next moves. When the dowsing crystal stops reacting, she realizes Ami will checkmate her, and proceeds to directly attack her, which led to her own death and Ami's capture by the Black Moon Clan. |
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In the Mordant's Need novels checkers (this world doesn't have chess) is used to show the King's disconnect with reality. The kingdom falls apart while King Joyse obsesses over games with his mad adviser Adept Havelock, struggles to grasp his land's predicament with checkers analogies, and even goes out of his way to humiliate a powerful foreign prince for not knowing how to play the game. Somewhat subverted - Havelock is mad, but King Joyse is actually playing a part to try and identify the kingdom's enemies. | |
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Midsomer Murders: "The Sicilian Defence" revolves around a chess tournament and a computer chess game. As it takes place in Midsomer, needless to say there are more than a few unbalanced personalities involved. The killer leaves chess notations in the pockets of the victims. | |
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The Sewer King in Hey Arnold!, despite liking chess, is horrible at playing; Arnold beats him in a few moves seven times in a row. He admits having only rats to practice with... | |
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In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, an epic chess match between Holmes and the main antagonist serves as both the climax and a representation for the entire movie's events. It should also be mentioned that both of them were not using a chess board and playing throughout portions of the match. | |
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has King Radovid V, an increasingly paranoid despot obsessed with chess and hunting sorceresses. Fittingly, the first place you meet him is at a chess club where he explains his passion for the game. | |
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The completely loony Queen from Headlander runs... she started with chess, but her Grid Clash is now just a chess-themed gladiatorial arena in which the patterns of fired lasers imitate the movements of the "firing" piece. | |
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Durarara!!'s Izaya doesn't just play chess. He plays chess-reversi-cards-alcohol-matches. And he is definitely crazy. | |
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