Immortal Game - References in Popular Culture

References in Popular Culture

  • Poul Anderson's short story, "The Immortal Game", published in the February 1954 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • The chess game in the 1982 film Blade Runner is based on the Immortal Game. See also: Themes in Blade Runner.
  • The 2003 album from the electronic artist Symbion Project, Immortal Game, the first and last tracks of which are titled after the first and last moves of the game for which the album is named ("Pawn to King 4", and "Bishop to King 7, Checkmate")
  • David Shenk named his 2007 book concerning the history of chess after this game, with a move-by-move description of the game appearing intermittently within the narrative.
  • Immortal Game, a 1996 novel by Douglas Niles (ISBN 078690478X)
  • The Immortal Game, a 1999 novel by Mark Coggins that featured the famous chess game (ISBN 0918395186)
  • The Immortal Game: The Movie, by director Michael Mertineit
  • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, Moonwalking with Einstein follows Author Joshua Foer into a compelling journey as a participant in the U.S. Memory Championship.
  • Positions from the Immortal Game can be found on various video monitors in "The Queen's Gambit Job", Season 4, ep. 10 of Leverage.

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