Chess the Musical

Chess the musical is about a romantic triangle involving two top chess players and a woman who manages one of the players and falls in love with the other player. One player is American and the other is Russian playing in a World Championship. The American character was kinda like chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer, while some elements of the story may have been inspired by the chess careers of Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov.

The first theatrical production of Chess was in London in 1986 where it played for three years. An altered US version premièred on Broadway in 1988, and lasted only two months. Chess premièred in the Prince Edward Theatre in London on 14 May 1986 and closed on 8 April 1989. The London version of the play costed up to 12 million dollars to produce. The production won the 1986 London Critics' Theatre Award for Best Musical.

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