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It involves chess because Sam Westing plays it and so do many people. J. J. Ford played it and always lost to him. in the story Theo is playing chess with someone at the Westing estate and he doesn’t who it is. Later on Doug says that Sandy McSouthers (doorman) was moving the pieces. The whole Westing Game is a game of chess.
