Today my guests are David Jenkins, author of Spurious Games, and Ben Graff, who recently  reviewed the novel for The Chess Circuit newsletter.  We spoke for a few hours about a whole range of topics, including how novels shapeshift when they move to other mediums such as film or TV, or the web.

QUESTIONS

• Is it me, or is the world a much smaller place?  I seem to have come across your name as you played several of my friends in the Cornish Chess League and then as the author of this novel, then I was interviewing Goru Arvind President of the Fiji Chess Federation and it turned out that you had played him when he was a kid, and he told me that you had previously been the President and played for the Fijian Olympiad team!!
  
• Did you get a chance to travel to some of the more remote of the 300 islands?
  

MENTIONED DURING THE CHAT

https://www.fijichess.com/

Prof. David Jenkins and Spurious Games (novel) - http://spuriousgames.org/

One of my favourite galleries in the British Museum is the Oceania gallery - https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries/oceania

Let me know if I've missed anything and I will update this page!