The doctor...spoke of the fact that all around them was a bright, free world, that chess was a cold amusement that dries up and corrupts the brain, and that the passionate chess player is just as ridiculous as the madman inventing a perpetuum mobile or counting pebbles on a deserted ocean shore. "I shall stop loving you," said his fiancee, "if you start thinking about chess--and I can see every thought, so behave yourself." "Horror, suffering, despair," said the doctor quietly, "those are what this exhausting game gives rise to."
A chess blog is too serious to enjoy, and too frivolous to take seriously. –Source Unknown
Saturday, January 28, 2006
The Joys of Chess
From Vladimir Nabokov's novel The Defense (upon which the movie The Luzhim Defense is based):
interesting post. is the book any good?
ReplyDeleteIt has that rambling, depressing, Russian style. I guess if you like Russian literature you might like it.
ReplyDeleteThe first half was fun, as it was focused a lot on chess, but then the second half it got really boring for me.
I didn't realize it's the same author that wrote Lolita!