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The Chessplayers

Charles L. Harness

First published October 1953
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Members of a chess club debate whether a chess-playing rat is good enough to hold an exhibition.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1953 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1953 Fantasy House, Inc. MAGAZINE 36
March 1954 Cover Fiction, #4 OPTA MAGAZINE 60
1966 Cover The Rose Compact Books Collection 123
November 1966 Cover Science Fiction Oddities Berkley Medallion Anthology 105
1968 Cover The Rose Sidgwick & Jackson Collection 121
1969 Cover The Rose Panther Collection 99
1969 Cover The Rose Panther Collection 99
January 1969 Cover The Rose Berkley Medallion Collection 89
June 1969 Science Fiction Oddities Rapp & Whiting Anthology 128
February 1970 Cover Galassia, #112 Casa Editrice La Tribuna MAGAZINE 110
1971 Cover Die Rose Heyne Collection 90
May 1971 Cover Science Fiction Special (4) Sidgwick & Jackson Omnibus
1973 Cover Out of This World 10 Blackie Anthology 96
March 1975 Cover Chess in Literature Equinox / Avon Anthology 167
1976 Cover Histoires à rebours Le Livre de Poche Anthology 329
1978 Cover Tijdval en andere sf-verhalen Meulenhoff Collection 87
1978 Cover Histoires à rebours Le Livre de Poche Anthology 329
1979 Cover The Best Animal Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy Frederick Warne Anthology 173
1981 Cover The Rose Granada Collection 99
November 1984 Cover Histoires à rebours Le Livre de Poche Anthology 329
March 1993 The Rose Lightyear Press Collection
August 1998 Cover An Ornament to His Profession NESFA Press Collection 153
February 1999 Cover An Ornament to His Profession NESFA Press Collection 153
July 2015 Cover An Ornament to His Profession Gateway / Orion Collection |153