Vladimir Nabokov

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Complete article: http://www.nysun.com/article/70166








Bobby Fischer - R.I.P.


Chess
By BORIS GULKO and GABRIEL SCHOENFELDJanuary 25, 2008

Bobby Fischer, who died this week at the age of 64, was the greatest American player ever, and also the most tragic, a gloomy real-life version of Luzhin, the chess genius in Nabokov's novel, The Defense, who suffers a mental breakdown during his quest for the world championship.

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Fischer's encounter with Donald Byrne in 1956, played when Fischer was 14 years old, has been called "the game of the century."

BYRNE VS. FISCHER

(White) (Black)



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