FROM: Don Johnson
In his Foreword to the English translation of the
_THE DEFENSE_ VN refers to
to a famous chess game--the so-"Immortal Game"
played in 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritsky. I (and many people
more chess- savvy than I) have argued that the allusion has
implications for understanding the novel.
Today the L.A; Times reviewed a book by David
Shenk: THE IMMORTAL GAME (Doubleday) devoted in large part to that game. Shenk's
book may be worth looking at. If anyone does, please advise
NABOKV-L.