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Shogun by James Clavell

What a sprawling, gorgeous, unique, massive, engrossing, satisfying masterpiece - it revels in deeply involved chess-like strategic intricacies, but it also, separately from that, invokes an alien world effectively and completely, and the two feats in combination are exquisite. 

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