Chess is a musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, formerly of ABBA. The story involves a romantic triangle between two top players, an American and a Russian, in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other; all in the context of a Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union, during which both countries wanted to win international chess tourn...
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Richard Nelson
Richard Nelson (born October 17, 1950, Chicago, IL) is an award-winning American playwright and librettist. He wrote the books for the musicals James Joyce's The Dead and the Broadway version of Chess.
Nelson married Cynthia Blair Bacon on May 21, 1972; they have 2 children. For three years he was...