Solving Nabokov's Lolita
Riddle: Vladimir Nabokov, the author of the best-selling novel
Lolita, was also a composer of chess problems for many decades. In one
particular chess problem, discussed in his memoirs and published
separately in Poems and Problems, Nabokov engaged in a stunning
Wonderland chess duel against Lewis Carroll. This chess duel has been
analysed by me for the very first time on my website www.lolitariddle.com, as well as
in my book 'Solving Nabokov's Lolita Riddle' (2005), which has only just
been published here in Australia. I thought some of your members might
find Nabokov's symbolic chess duel rather interesting. Jo Morgan [1/8/05] |