Articoli:

- The chess gift of Queen Elizabeth I, in Kenilworth;
- Two chessboards in the inventory of the furniture of the castle of Kenilworth;
- The notation on Napoleon, in Journal;
- The pensive game of chess, in Guy Mannering;
- The amusements of the Highlanders, in A legend of Montrose;
- Game at Chess of Caxton in the story of Jonathan Oldbuck, in The Antiquary;
- The minstrel who knew the game of chess, in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border;
- The domestic spirit that suggests the moves of the game of chess, in Letters of Demonology;
- The rider that saved the future King Charles II from the hate of Cromwell, in Woodstock;
- In politics the treasurers and the ministers are moved as in the game of chess, a tower or a pawn is captured, in Bride of Lammermoor;
- The only company Scott had during his indisposition: books and chess, in the preface to Waverley;
- The chess and Napoleon, in The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte;
- The strange inheritance of the Spanish game, in The Black Dwarf.