All the King's Horses

Recently I read Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut. It contained a short story "All the King's Horses" about a chess game in which humans were used as pieces. I suppose the story was not based on any actual game, but I wish I could see what chess moves could fit in the story.

Maybe somebody tried to create a game or played a game fitting to that story?

Yes, I read it, but it was quite a while ago. It's also an interesting story as I remember.

I read this short story yesterday. It is a philosophical one that discuses the war and some important principles in life and uses chess as a mini-model of war. The point is that the  U.S army colonel is far more emotional when he loses part of his team (soldiers) on the chessboard than when he experience this loss on the battlefield. Moreover there is a cold war element implemented in it because even after the Asian totalitaristic leader is dead and the game was to be ended, the russian guy  wants to continue the game because the political circumstances  demand it

Interestingly, when this story was first published in the 10 February 1951 issue of “Collier’s” magazine, the last magazine page of the story (page 50) included one diagram of the endgame — see below:

Interestingly, if you follow the first two moves: 1. e4 d5 2. d3 dxe4 3. dxe4, you see that black could have taken white's queen (the wife). Not sure why he didn't go for that. Additionally, it is a russian playing chess. There is no way he would have missed the final checkmate. I mean, he was gloating as he played the final move

Also going to mention that the position shown above is almost impossible. There was a pawn exchange on e4,, with white recapturing with his d pawn. How is there a pawn on d4 in this given position? White would have had to capture with f pawn to e3 then d4. I find that extremely hard to imagine. Then again, they both sucked at chess, so who knows?

Additionally, the exact quote in the novel when Pi Ying/Black takes Jerry/White is "King's knight to king's bishop six!". This diagram seems to show the knight moving to b2, which would be king's knight to king's knight seven. I am trying to recreate the game set up and I am forced to try and find another solution.

In addition, I do not see in the diagram the mate in 2 that black has in the novel. The dotted line shows black queen going from e7 to b4, which would put the king in check, as it would have happened in the novel had Pi Ying realized the move. However, the novel says that Pi Ying had mate in 2, and with white's king moving to either a1 or a2, it seems to me that it would take two more moves for mate, thereby making it a mate in 3. (Although it would be a mate in 2 if after black's queen to b4 white went knight b2, then black's queen takes b2 check mate. However, this is not classified as a mate in 2.)

If anyone has any help, I would love to hear it.

Summary: Diagram is contradictory to novel:

1. The capture of white's knight is not happening on the proper space which was specified in the novel.

2. Black does not have a mate in 2 as it had in the novel.

what if the rook goes up to block  the queen check isnt it holding for black? the king can move to the right and avoid moving to a 8

I put a pgn of the position if anyone is interested

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/pgn/qwmn12nLE?tab=analysis