During a game of human chess in The Village, one rook steps out of line and makes a move on his own initiative...and is promptly ejected.

Tropes: Big Bad: The Chess King, who imprisoned Elijah and several others who tried playing chess against him and lost. Elijah being imprisoned resulted in ...

Tropes: Big Bad: The Shadow King Lucius, who is revealed to have stolen the White Chess King Marcus' queen long ago, changed his human forces into monsters, ...

Images that show Human Chess. From the Miyuki-chan in Wonderland manga. Here.◊ The Simpsons: [1]◊ [2]◊ …

Checkmate. During a game of human chess in The Village, one rook steps out of line and makes a move on his own initiative...and is promptly ejected.

Not to be confused with Human Chess where the pieces are humans and captured pieces are sometimes killed. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound.

An extension of Cosmic Plaything, where two or more gods (or similarly powered entities) are effectively using the entire world as a game board.

The Smart People Play Chess trope as used in popular culture. A common visual shorthand to indicate that a character is smart is to have them play chess, ...

5 сент. 2023 г. · The favorite pastime of every Chessmaster and Evil Overlord. Chess played with actual people, sometimes to the death.

3 мая 2021 г. · Let's just find the best representative of ten stereotypical types of chess players and put them against each other in a closed round-robin tournament.