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Idiot's Mate
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"Idiot's Mate" is a 1968 science fiction short story by Robert Taylor. It was first published in Amazing Stories.
Synopsis
A chess tournament is held on the Moon — but instead of pieces, the game uses people in spacesuits, who wield guns with explosive bullets.
Reception
"Idiot's Mate" was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 1968.[1]
Galactic Journey found it to be "a bit overwritten, but capably so," and noted that it "moves fast".[2]
Mike Ashley has assessed it as "almost certainly" the most popular story published in Amazing Stories under the editorial tenure of Harry Harrison.[3]
References
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