Chess was one of Samuel Beckett's great obsessions, touching everything from Murphy to Endgame. Perhaps this game of fierce purity and life-or-death stakes is the key to all his workI am something of an interloper at the Samuel Beckett festival in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. While the Beckettians are here to venerate the master and his works " concentrated, intense, elliptical " I have come for the chess, which is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM on August 29, 2013