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klutzyk8ie

A few questions..

What year does Chess take place? 1986-87, right?

Florence and Freddie met at... a chess tournamnet in England in 1979, right?

How many years has Freddie been the world champion?

Any other information on their history? (I'm writing a fanfic and I don't want it to be total blasphemy)

Cadriel

Re: A few questions..

klutzyk8ie wrote:

What year does Chess take place? 1986-87, right?

In the London and Stockholm versions, yes. In Broadway, it was 1988. Other variations placed it as late as 1990.

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Florence and Freddie met at... a chess tournamnet in England in 1979, right?

This is never mentioned, but Florence was raised in England in London and Sydney, and in the US in most American variations. The assumption, I think, is that she was raised in the US in the Stockholm productions. It's not mentioned explicitly.

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How many years has Freddie been the world champion?

Again, this is never mentioned. Garry Kasparov won the championship from Anatoly Karpov in July 1985, which is a problem for the London / Sydney scheme, which have Freddie being champion around March 1986; that would mean Trumper vs. Sergievsky is the third world championship in about nine months. That's quite a lot. It would be reasonable to have the previous championship happen in place of Kasparov's 1985 win.

For later dates, it would simply be a question of the current champion (it changes depending on the version) to have beaten Kasparov after 1985.

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Any other information on their history? (I'm writing a fanfic and I don't want it to be total blasphemy)

In the musical corpus, the only real detail provided is that Florence was an English major according to "How Many Women?" ("All of my struggles for qualifications / My nights with Goethe and Proust / Breathlessly abandoned for you / Who thinks Chekhov is King to G3 / And Joyce my college roommate...").

On Broadway, there's a bit of discussion about her:

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NIKOLAI
(handing him a file) The woman with Trumper. Florence Vassy.

ANATOLY
(as he plays) An experienced second. She's well-known. You could have just asked me.

MOLOKOV
(reads) Florence Vassy. Hungarian refugee. Left Budapest in 1956 as a child.
(to Nikolai)
Sleep together?

NIKOLAI
Rumor is they don’t anymore. She has her own room here. But we’re still checking this out ourselves.

Later in the show, Molokov details her history a bit:

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MOLOKOV
Florence Vassy. Hungarian refugee. Left Budapest 1956. Mother dead. Father lost, presumed dead. Brought up by a Laurence Osborne, professor of Ancient History at Yale University. You see we have been briefed about you as well....Ms. Vassy, 1956 was a long time ago. We in the Soviet Union have already forgotten.

Most other versions don't even have this level of detail; it looks like you're using the London variation as a basis, but still, it's food for thought.

- Wayne

klutzyk8ie

Thank you!!!!

Jekkienumber24601

Re: A few questions..

Cadriel wrote:

On Broadway, there's a bit of discussion about her:

Quote:

NIKOLAI
(handing him a file) The woman with Trumper. Florence Vassy.

ANATOLY
(as he plays) An experienced second. She's well-known. You could have just asked me.

MOLOKOV
(reads) Florence Vassy. Hungarian refugee. Left Budapest in 1956 as a child.
(to Nikolai)
Sleep together?

NIKOLAI
Rumor is they don’t anymore. She has her own room here. But we’re still checking this out ourselves.

- Wayne

That last line is the tour Broadway, the line is simply

NIKOLAI
We're still checking this out

ANATOLY
He needs only an answer Nikolai, not a videotape.

Cadriel

Re: A few questions..

Jekkienumber24601 wrote:

That last line is the tour Broadway, the line is simply

NIKOLAI
We're still checking this out

ANATOLY
He needs only an answer Nikolai, not a videotape.

The dialogue I put up is from a transcript I have of Broadway's opening night, so I double-checked; it's the same in the official script issued by Samuel French. The line you have is from the Chicago show. (Which, in my opinion, is better anyway, but there you go.)

- Wayne

Jekkienumber24601

Re: A few questions..

Cadriel wrote:

Jekkienumber24601 wrote:

That last line is the tour Broadway, the line is simply

NIKOLAI
We're still checking this out

ANATOLY
He needs only an answer Nikolai, not a videotape.

The dialogue I put up is from a transcript I have of Broadway's opening night, so I double-checked; it's the same in the official script issued by Samuel French. The line you have is from the Chicago show. (Which, in my opinion, is better anyway, but there you go.)

- Wayne

oh okay. the script I got from Samuel French had the lines I posted.

klutzyk8ie

I started writing it

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3339129/1/

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