Who wrote the historic novel chess, starting with the moors to the French revolution?

This is quite a thick book, it has nothing to do with playing the game chess, but builds a fantastic story around the origins of the game. Starting with Nun's who are entrusted with a mystical chess piece.


The story goes through the Moors, Nights Templar's, the crusaders, the French revolution and so much more.





Who wrote it and were can I buy it from. I read it around 1997 but it was probably published well before then.|||I found one on Amazon called Chess - a novel by Stefan Zwieg first written in 1944 and re-published in 2006.





Link below|||I think you mean "The Eight" by Katherine Neville, a brilliant book - absolutely riveting.


(Way better than that Dan Brown chap)


You can get it off amazon - also her subsequent novels "the fire" etc.


Enjoy