In the sixth century AD, Indian literature featured a magical game that captivated human beings as a representation of war in the theater of the world. The seductive legends about its origins strengthened the link between both disciplines, which from that moment on fed back to each other.
 The ajedrez has served as inspirational territory literature for the creativity of great authors, such as Lewis Carroll, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Julio Cortázar, Max Frisch or Fernando Arrabal, among many others, in whose work occupies a considerable place.
 In this essay, Antonio Gude and José Luis Torrego carried out a colossal work of investigation, collecting and analyzing the most significant titles of modern letters to create a taxonomía and pay homage to this ancient love story between the arts: literature and the ajedrez.