“The Chess Playeress,” the first novel by French writer Bertina Henricks, immediately became a sensation. In 2009, a film was made based on it, starring Sandrine Bonnaire and Kevin Kline in the lead roles. It’s the story of an ordinary, unremarkable woman named Eleni who lives on a small Greek island and works as a hotel maid. One day, while cleaning a room for a guest — a Parisian — she finds chess… And from that day on, her life changes rapidly.