Chess Stories

A Blue Lock fanfiction. (L/N) (Y/N) isn't sure when it started-this quiet, persistent admiration for Isagi Yoichi. Maybe it's the way he spaces out in class, brows knitted in thought, completely unaware of how endearing he looks. Maybe it's the fierce determination that flickers across his face when he's truly focused, the kind that makes her want to try harder too. But deep down, she suspects it's simpler than that: Isagi has a way of slipping into people's lives, disarming them with his kindness, his quiet resolve, and that easy, genuine smile. Her friends call him plain. Normal. Unremarkable. But she begs to differ. Yes, he looks ordinary at a glance. But (Y/N) has always sensed something else beneath the surface. Something dormant, patient, waiting for the right moment to awaken. Like a Pokemon before evolution.

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝖉𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖘 𝖜𝖊𝖆𝖕𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖓'𝖙 𝖆 𝖐𝖓𝖎𝖋𝖊. 𝕴𝖙'𝖘 𝖆 𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖐𝖓𝖔𝖜𝖘 𝖊𝖝𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖑𝖞 𝖍𝖔𝖜 𝖙𝖔 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖑 𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖘. _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ Six friends. One school. A game they never agreed to play. When a series of mysterious murders begins to haunt their school, fear quickly spreads among students and teachers alike. While the police search for answers, six friends find themselves drawn into a web of secrets, clues, and unanswered questions. What starts as an attempt to help solve the case soon turns into something far more dangerous. The deeper they dig, the more they realize that this isn't just about murder. Someone is always watching. Always planning. Always one step ahead. Every clue feels planted. Every move feels predicted. As reality begins to blur with deception, the friends find themselves trapped in a psychological game where trust becomes a weakness and the truth is buried beneath layers of manipulation. But the biggest question isn't who the killer is. It's why everything seems to be happening exactly as someone intended. And by the time they understand the rules of the game, it may already be too late. _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________

"Your love for me never changed. And mine? Grew everyday." A group of people with unsettling pasts found a common interest in the game of chess. The story is about healing, moving on, connecting and learning to trust again, as the main characters slowly form bonds with one another despite their different backgrounds. But what will happen when the past that's been haunting you comes back when your wounds are almost about to be healed? To find out, read 'Stalemate'. {𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓮𝓷𝓳𝓸𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷 𝓲𝓯 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓭𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝓱𝓸𝔀 𝓽𝓸 𝓹𝓵𝓪𝔂 𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓼𝓼.} ⚠️Trigger Warning⚠️ [It contains topics such as self harm(s**c!de), death, misuse of certain medicines(d**gs),smoking, sometimes violence.] This story is SUPPOSED to be unrealistic (Deal with it). Don't try to find any similarities between the real world and this story world, you won't find any. The story follows a different world building (A different universe you can say), so even if you find the names of real world currencies or countries, many things (tournament traditions etc) will be made up for the sake of the plot. (Everyone and everything is fictional in this story, including the timeline. This story neither involves any real life people nor try to replicate any real life people in any way, shape or form. It is also a failed attempt at humor at certain points. Note: English is not my first language.) I don't own any of the pictures, they are mostly collected from the internet and slightly edited to fit the story. 《♡ Enjoy ♡》 {©️Original story}

Marvin's POV (Read after The Lone Dove) Queen City High wasn't what it used to be. It was something far more peculiar, and enhanced. Both my parents attended this prestigious academy, and now, myself, my twin sister and my younger brother have followed to the next generation. As did those of our family, and our family was wide in both riches and a legacy that made me sweat in the creepiest dark corners of the night. There was one thing I thought of when I couldn't breathe. One girl I didn't call a relative, a sibling, or a cousin of any kind, despite my sister ruining it all when she called Lorraine Gunner's parents, the 'Uncle and Aunt' even though we weren't blood-related. Melanie was her best friend, both perfected scheming at a young age. I was forced to act as though her sleepovers with my sister didn't torment me when I wished Lorraine chose my room instead. Melanie was the centre of attention in most events, I couldn't keep up, nor had I wanted to. People fed off secrets like moths to a flame. It was all parties consisted of, not grand electric songs and getting high off alcohol. It was continuous games of truth and dare, of bets and filtered literacies of toxic romances used as schemes, ploys and lies. Melanie never bothered with it, no matter how many wanted her to play. The only way I could protect Lorraine...was to deal my own cards. My sister could fend for herself. After all, that was in our blood.

She was never the random piece. An investigation. A powerful family. A game already in motion. Armand thought he was chasing the truth. But in a world of secrets, power, and manipulation... he was never the player. He was a piece. Tropes: Slow burn | Morally grey characters | Hidden identity | Mind games | Power couple | Forced proximity | Betrayal | Revenge | Chess & strategy |

a short story set in a dark fictional college. more mystery than romance. ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧. On a cold Friday evening in November, two best friends enter the battlefield of chess, unaware that they'll lose more than just their King. ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧. «Vincere aut mori». 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘦. ── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ written by @yvilique

Jayden, Fola, David, and Nicole are four young, talented chess players who are advancing higher and higher in their pursuit of chess glory and growing stronger under the guidance of Mr. and Mrs. Molokwu, their grandmaster coaches. But even though chess starts as the center of everything, it soon becomes just another piece on the board as bonds and friendships that go beyond chess form between all four players. Experiencing victories and losses together forges strong ties between them and the story becomes less about the chess and more about the people playing the chess. And when they least expect, the story introduces them to both the beautiful possibility of new bonds and the haunting personality of old ones - and both contrasts come in the form of people, of course. Filled with adventure, anticipation, action, wins, losses, good humor, and emotions, "My Chess Teammates" welcomes you into the realm of friends who became family, rivals who will do anything to surpass their opponents, and the core values that make winners what they are - all while also welcoming you into the realm of the royal game of chess, the most beautiful game man ever made.

Cleo Anderson would rather jump off a cliff than ever have anything to do with her ex-best friend, Aster Blackwood. But after a trap set by her mother and his, Cleo finds herself once again in the house of her worst enemy. Instead of the confrontation she expects, Cleo is met with his death-and the weight of every word left unsaid. Granted a second chance by Death itself, Cleo must save the boy she once knew from a path of destruction, all while slowly dying herself. With her sacrifice already set in stone, can Cleo find a way to truly live beyond herself-and beyond her own flaws?

𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑟, 𝑖'𝑚 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑; 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼'𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒 ━━━━ 𝗃𝗎𝗇𝗀𝗐𝗈𝗇 𝗎𝗌𝖾𝗌 𝖻𝗂𝗀 𝖽𝖺𝗍𝖺 𝗍𝗈 𝖽𝖾𝗌𝗍𝗋𝗈𝗒 "𝖿𝗎𝗍𝗎𝗋𝖾" 𝖼𝗋𝗂𝗆𝗂𝗇𝖺𝗅𝗌 𝗂𝗇 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗂𝗋 𝗍𝗈𝗉-𝗍𝗂𝖾𝗋 𝗌𝖼𝗁𝗈𝗈𝗅 𝖻𝖾𝖿𝗈𝗋𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗒 𝖺𝖼𝗍. 𝗎𝗇𝗍𝗂𝗅 𝗁𝖾 𝗆𝖾𝖾𝗍𝗌 𝖾𝗎𝗅, 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗈𝗇𝗅𝗒 𝗌𝗍𝗎𝖽𝖾𝗇𝗍 𝖻𝗋𝗂𝗅𝗅𝗂𝖺𝗇𝗍 𝖾𝗇𝗈𝗎𝗀𝗁 𝗍𝗈 𝗌𝖾𝖾 𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝗌𝗍𝗋𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗌. 𝗂𝗇 𝖺 𝗁𝗂𝗀𝗁-𝗌𝗍𝖺𝗄𝖾𝗌 𝗀𝖺𝗆𝖾 𝗈𝖿 𝗉𝗌𝗒𝖼𝗁𝗈𝗅𝗈𝗀𝗂𝖼𝖺𝗅 𝖼𝗁𝖾𝗌𝗌 , 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗒 𝖽𝖺𝗇𝖼𝖾 𝖻𝖾𝗍𝗐𝖾𝖾𝗇 𝗆𝗎𝗍𝗎𝖺𝗅 𝖽𝖾𝗌𝗍𝗋𝗎𝖼𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖺 𝖽𝖺𝗋𝗄 𝗂𝗇𝗍𝖾𝗅𝗅𝖾𝖼𝗍𝗎𝖺𝗅 𝖺𝗍𝗍𝗋𝖺𝖼𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇. 𝗁𝗈𝗐 𝖽𝗈 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗉𝗎𝗇𝗂𝗌𝗁 𝖺 𝖼𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗁𝖺𝗌𝗇'𝗍 𝗁𝖺𝗉𝗉𝖾𝗇𝖾𝖽 𝗒𝖾𝗍? 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗗. 23/03/2026 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗗. - psychological thriller. mistery. high school au. ♟ ⋮ @v4mpclvb 2026 ︶ ⏝ ︶ ꒰ ᧔ෆ᧓ ꒱ ︶ ⏝ ︶ highest rankings: 1st in #jungwonxreader 2nd in #intellectual 2nd in #godclomplex

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[සිංහල] Welcome to the endgame! රජවරුන්ගේ ක්‍රීඩාවේ ඇත්තේ එක් නීතියක් පමණි,....සතුරන් අභිබවා ජීවත් වන්න! ...... නමුත්, ජයග්‍රහණය කිරීමට ඇති එකම ක්‍රමය වන්නේ කිසි විටෙකත් නීතිරීති අනුව ක්‍රීඩා නොකිරීමයි.... Thriller| Mystery | Romance | Non-fiction | straight | bl START:07.01.2026

Steph lives an ordinary life, working a job he never dreamed of while watching others move ahead. As unexpected opportunities, friendships, love, and forgotten memories enter his life, he begins to question his place in the world and whether a pawn can become something greater.

The story explore the school life drama, romance and the sense of home that a school can gives us.

Timeline: Between Chapters 69 and 71 of Decaying Eminence. While Moto fights for his life outside Sango's borders, the world does not wait for its heroes. King Malachi of Denga has arrived in Nyika - not with an army, but with a chess piece, a golden spear, and the particular patience of someone who has already decided how this ends. Meanwhile, the Crimson Creed receives a mission that will change the fate of Zen. Zugzwang is a canonical companion volume to Decaying Eminence. This is the side of the story the history books will remember - the kings, the tacticians, and the monsters who move the grand pieces while the heroes are otherwise occupied. (New to the world? Check out Decaying Eminence.)

Either family and obsession or each other and love... They both know they're pieces on the chess board. Y/N's from the Yin family, a powerful figure within the powerful family. And Yoongi's from the Yang family, a member that beholds much potential. Family feuds devastate the connections the two have. They meet in the ballroom as opponents and leave as lovers. Set on destroying each other, which path do they take? One filled with love and happiness where they lose their family? Or one filled with hatred and lies where they lose each other? TW: Suicide.

Timide, solitaire et souvent incompris, il grandit en observant le monde de loin, incapable de réellement trouver sa place parmi les autres. Entre pression familiale, manque de confiance, colère silencieuse et besoin d'exister, il tente peu à peu de construire sa propre identité. Ce qui n'était au départ qu'un simple jeu finit alors par transformer toute sa vie. Dans l'univers froid et impitoyable des échecs, chaque victoire le rapproche un peu plus de quelque chose qu'il a toujours cherché : une place dans ce monde. ♟️ Une histoire sur la solitude, la discipline, le dépassement de soi et la naissance d'un champion. #echecs #chess #prodige #genie #champion #strategie #competition #solitude #timide #identite #ambition #discipline #pressionfamiliale #psychologique #drame #ascension #underdog #mystere #dark #coree #kdrama #animevibes #webnovel

in the world of chess, brilliance often comes with a price-loneliness, obsession, and the constant need to prove oneself. for milana petrova, a prodigious player born into a legacy of grandmasters, the chessboard is her canvas. each move is a brushstroke, precise and deliberate, painting a vision only she can see. calculating yet instinctive, she maneuvers each match as though she already knows where the pieces will fall. yet behind her quiet confidence lies the burden of escaping her parents' control and carving out her own identity in a world where every move feels like a test. then there's benny watts-charming, cocky, and unorthodox. he's a chess prodigy who thrives on unpredictability, his bravado masking his own insecurities. when their paths first cross in 1962, lana becomes the one opponent who rattles his confidence. her reserved nature and unnerving precision create a tension he can't shake, and he's drawn to her for reasons beyond the game. what begins as a rivalry shifts into something more complicated as their lives intertwine over the years. from late-night chess matches to stolen moments filled with unspoken truths, lana and benny push each other in ways neither expects. their connection deepens, but so does the weight of their unspoken fears and unresolved tensions.

An accident. A loss. A saviour in the form of 2 parents. When a young man of Indian origin who was raised by American parents finds out he has to save the throne of the Maharaja of Rajasthan from a tyrant who lusts for power, he notices that claiming the throne is not as easy...

In the Kingdom of Games, there are 6 provinces who each specialize in one game. That being poker or chess. The 6 provinces all despise eachother as everyone is competitive, believing their game is the only one that should be played in the Kingdom, thus leading to misbalanced between everyone. After an incident that leads the Kingdom to a war, 2 teens from each province are picked- them being the best out of the best in their game. Then, they will be using their game strategy to command the troops to save their kingdom like their ancestors before them. Together.