The Chess Girls: A Tale of Beauty Queens... And Chess (The Chess Adventures)

FULLY REVISED AND RE-EDITEDWhen 32 beauty contestants are kidnapped in a military-style operation, it's a job for top Israeli intelligence officer Dov Shamir. The kidnapper – “Lee Chadwick” - has threatened to kill the girls unless former US and world chess champion Billy Segal can be persuaded to come out of retirement and play against a chess program that runs on the internet using the computers of those who are watching the games for "parallel computing."But Segal has lost his nerve and so it is up to Shamir - who is also an international master of chess - to come up with a plan.Meanwhile the girls are being pampered in a luxurious mansion on a large Caribbean island but warned not to try and escape. And those who do they find themselves coming up against a six foot three lesbian who delights flexing her muscles at their expense.Will Dov and the girls be able to prevail? Will the combined efforts of the American, British and Israeli intelligence be able to locate where the girls are being held? And will they be able to overcome the heavily armed guards without getting the girls killed? But the most important question is who is the mysterious “Lee Chadwick” who never seems to appear but is pulling the strings and controlling things from behind the scenes? Could it be some one who has been out in the open all along?EXTRACT:The chessboard was deep in the grounds of the mansion isolated in a forest and surrounded by trees. Eight yards by eight yards square, it was made up of white fibreglass and smoked-brown translucent perspex. The girls were standing on the first two ranks at each end of the board, dressed in black or white – each “chessman” characterized by its clothing.The rule seemed to be, the less powerful the chessman, the less the clothing. Thus the pawns were wearing very brief bikinis. The knights were clad in halter tops and shorts. The bishops also wore T-shirts and shorts. The rooks wore jackets with epaulettes and short skirts. The “queens” low-cut evening gowns with long slits and the kings wore tight fitting black leather – dominatrix style.“Ah Mr. Segal. I hope you had a comfortable, enjoyable and...restful night.”“Where's Lee Chadwick?”“It’s Lee Chadwick's computer program you're playing against, not Lee Chadwick.”“Yes, but I’d’ve thought that after going to all this trouble, he’d want to see the game.”Jeeves didn't answer. Dov looked around.“So how's this thing gonna work?”“You are to be white. Considering your handicap at having to get back into practice in so short a space of time that's the least we could do for you. As you can see, the girls are to be the pieces.”Dov looked over at the board where the girls were standing nervously. They had evidently been briefed on their role.There’s a chair for you up there.”Jeeves pointed to a raised mound behind the white pieces.“And what am I supposed to do, call out my moves?”“In the arm of a chair, you’ll find a touchscreen with a chessboard. You can type your moves into it. They will be relayed to the computer and the board. This will cause the starting square to illuminate and finishing square to flash. This will tell the girls where to move.”“And I presume the computer’s moves…”“Will be flashed on the board in the same way.”Dov touched the screen at e2 where his king’s pawn was situated and then touched the square e4, two squares ahead of it.The square e2 lit up beneath a girl in a white bikini and the square e4, two squares ahead began flashing. Realizing what was required of her, the girl took two brisk strides forward and now stood on e4, which then stopped flashing. Dov noticed that the light had gone off at e2 as soon as she had left it.The c7 and c5 squares began flashing alternately, to tell the girl in a black bikini on c7 to move two squares forward.P-QB4The Sicilian Defence.The battle was underway.