Queen's Gambit Novels & Stories

"The moment a pawn realizes the board..." The speaker's fingers rested lightly on the black queen. "...it becomes a queen." The lamp overhead flickered. The chess piece cast a long shadow across the table. And in the darkness...Someone smiled.

We stared into each other's eyes and even with the silence, I could hear Gwen's heart beating fast as her breathing became erratic. I always knew Gwen's loyalty to me was more than just admiration and if she wasn't important, I would have evicted her in a painless manner. "My lady." Gwen's smooth voice had me breaking the contact as I stood up, grabbing a pawn piece. "What is the most powerful piece in a game of chess?" I asked as I walked to my window and stared down. Father was talking to a messenger boy as I faced Gwen who was seriously thinking as she stared at the board on my desk.

him anytime.Are you available to play?" she asked of a man with a gray beard and a wool hat pulled low over his ears. It could be cold sitting there when the sun was back behind the clouds."Oh, sure, missy," he said with a twinkly smile revealing his crooked teeth.KY created a plan to lose the game at lightning speed. In that way, she could flee from here and as far away from this police officer as possible.When she started moving the pieces, though, the allure of the game was too great, and she started playing for real.Her mother always said she was too beautiful to play such a dull game as chess. But the truth was that KY was totally hooked on the game. It was like a drug she couldn't sto

asked the earl. He waited for Nathan patiently as he toured the board from all angles. Sitting opposite to Billington, he moved one of his pawns. Billington looked perplexed. While waiting Nathan picked up the imposing Queen. He used a clean handkerchief to wipe off the wwaist a tiny mark. Then he placed her back on the board. “She is a heavy lady,” Nathan remarked,” but so should she. She dominates the entire board.” Billington moved one of his pawns and Nathan immediately moved one of his. Billington stared.

I couldn't trust the aged butler standing a few feet behind the Queen and I certainly didn't trust the large she-wolf guarding the entrance either, Carisss dipped into a small bow again and left without another word. So I stood there awkwardly, watching as the Queen sipped her tea. "I'm not going to bite you, come sit." Amusement danced in her eyes as they fell on me and I shuffled nervously before nodding, I slid into the white bench across from her, folding my shaky fingers on my lap. That was when I noticed the chessboard on the table, it wasn't like a normal board, rather it was built into the table. And a game had already begun,

His firm fingers held the black queen and knocked the white knight, perfectly destroying the victorious smirk of the other player and then used the same black queen to knock the white king, which was settled three steps away. “I don’t have to be careful until my queen is watching over her King. Check and mate, Don Volkov.” Abban Lorenzo replied smugly and leaned back in his chair, relaxed after winning the first round. Volkov was left shocked at the sudden move and stared at the game board longer, to understand what just happened. He pursed his lips tight and nodded leaning back with a sigh. “I must admit this, you are a great player.”

I said, looking up at the moon, "is about to realize that her escape was just a detour. She belongs on a throne. And I am the only man who knows how to build one." I hung up and stepped into my waiting car. The game was no longer about a company. It was about a Queen. And in the game of chess, the King is the most vulnerable piece on the board. Caleb Knight was the King. And I was the player about to checkmate him.

He says, and without another backward glance, I walk out of the office. Kuznetsov warriors lead me back to my SUV, where Serena grabs me by the shoulders. “What the fuck was that?!” She asks with wide eyes. I chuckle and give her a wink. “That and what I did with Christian,” I say, “was me making my first move to start The Queen’s Gambit. Now, all we have to do is sit back and watch as our opponent counters. The question is, who exactly is Allessio Speranzini’s queen, and when will she strike?”

Silence descends on the large corner until Princess Camille says, “Check.” Everyone else except Gianni, who watches the entire match, fills with surprise. They look at how their game is going and see a murder, no, a massacre. The queen only lost a pawn and the princess already lost half of her officials and all her pawns. She makes a desperate attempt to check. Effective in garnering the room’s attention, but not great in impressing others surrounding her and her opponent. The queen smiles at her move and decides to capture all her pieces then go checkmate.

“Before I tell you, you must know that whatever the outcome, one thing is for certain. I will go down in flames or die trying to save us. We need to take every risk necessary to reach our endgame.” “And what exactly is our end game here, Leo?” Since the moment I first saw her, I have concealed a dark secret behind the facade of trying to be her hero. The heart of the now-defiant Queen may belong to someone else... But the truth is, Zeynep Volkov belongs to me and I will reduce cities to soot and ash to claim what is rightfully mine. No matter what it takes. I'll make her mine. If I have to wait... Kill for her... Slay her dragons... I will.