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Re: The Kalmyk take on VN's "Defense"
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The friend of the steppe Kalmuck didn't yet start to tear out Nabokov's
books from the hands of the Tungus - or at least from those of a foreign
reporter. But it is only a problem of time. Most chess players admire
"The
Luzhin Defense" and such grand masters as Kasparov and Kramnik count it
among their favorite books. As to Ilyumzhinov, it is an Ostap
Bender-like
figure, minus the latter's charm. Incidentally, Kalmykia is situated to
the
West of the Caspian Sea.
best,
Alexey
> My copy of "The New Yorker" gets to Santa Barbara only slightly
earlier
> than to its Kalmyk subscribers on the east side of the Caspian Sea
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books from the hands of the Tungus - or at least from those of a foreign
reporter. But it is only a problem of time. Most chess players admire
"The
Luzhin Defense" and such grand masters as Kasparov and Kramnik count it
among their favorite books. As to Ilyumzhinov, it is an Ostap
Bender-like
figure, minus the latter's charm. Incidentally, Kalmykia is situated to
the
West of the Caspian Sea.
best,
Alexey
> My copy of "The New Yorker" gets to Santa Barbara only slightly
earlier
> than to its Kalmyk subscribers on the east side of the Caspian Sea
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