A degree of posthumous fame
Obituaries of the late Shelley Duvall have mentioned her chess games with Stanley Kubrick on the set of The Shining. The director was a chess obsessive, constantly looking for adversaries on set, and the game features prominently in his films, including The Killing and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Chess also appears in Kubrick’s 1962 Lolita, in a scene where James Mason’s Humbert Humbert teaches the game to Lolita’s mother .
Mason claimed that his adoptive father gave him his new name when the family arrived in the United States in order to counter the strong prejudice against the throngs of Catholic Irish arriving in the country. In an interview with the Birmingham Weekly Mercury, Mason revealed that his father believed his birth name “so infernally Milesian” that it would infer he possessed “all the faults of the race went with it, particularly love of drink and laziness”.
Bennett offered him a job in the newspaper offices, allowing Mason more time to hone his game. By the 1880s, having initially returned to Europe to play in some tournaments, Mason was living in London and regarded as one of the top half-dozen players in the world. Not a few chess writers of the period compared Mason favourably with the first world champion Wilhelm Steinitz.
Although little known to those outside the world of chess, Pollock found a degree of posthumous fame when he appeared in the pages of Cormac McCarthy’s 1992 novel All the Pretty Horses. When the protagonist John Grady Cole visits the grand-aunt of his lover, she invites him to play chess, employing an opening he has never before seen. “It was invented by the Irish champion Pollock,” she tells him. “I was afraid you might know it.
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