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'''Shatranj Ke Khilari''' ({{lit|The Chess Players}}) is a 1924 [[Hindi]] short-story written by [[Munshi Premchand]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Premchand|first=Munshi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kSPvwQEACAAJ|title=Shatranj Ke Khiladi & Other Stories (शतरंज की खिलाड़ी औë|date=2021-03-15|publisher=Diamond Pocket Books|isbn=978-93-5165-495-7|language=hi}}</ref> Premchand also made the [[Urdu]] version titled "Shatranj ki bazi".<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
The story depicts decadent royalty of Central North India. It is set around the life of the last independently ruling [[Nawab]] (noble) [[Wajid Ali Shah]] and concludes with the British annexation of the Nawab's kingdom of [[Awadh]] in 1856. The two main characters are the aristocrats Mirza Sajjad Ali and Mir Raushan Ali who are deeply immersed into playing [[chess]]. Their desire for the game destroys the competency of the characters, and makes them irresponsible in their duties towards their families and society. They derive immense pleasure in developing chess strategies and ignore the real life invasion by the British. Their city [[Lucknow]] falls to British attackers as they are busy playing a game of chess.<br />
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==Film==<br />
In 1977, [[Satyajit Ray]] made a film with the same name, based on this story, also titled ''[[Shatranj Ke Khilari]]'',<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jindal|first=Suresh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8zY7DwAAQBAJ&q=Shatranj+ke+Khiladi|title=My Adventures with Satyajit Ray: The Making of Shatranj Ke Khilari|date=2017-10-10|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-93-5277-103-5|language=en}}</ref> which won the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi]]<ref>{{IMDb title|id=0076696|qid=Q76582|title=Shatranj Ke Khilari}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* Pritchett, Frances W. "The Chess Players: From Premchand to Satyajit Ray" in ''Essays on Premchand'', ed. by Carlo Coppola; ''Journal of South Asian Literature''; 22,2 (Summer-Fall 1986):65–78. Available online.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/published/txt_chess_players.html Columbia.edu]<br />
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