Philippe Dornbusch has another excellent picture teaser,
La question people du mercredi, on his Chess and Strategy blog... I'm struggling this week, can you name the film?
Chess Tales by Roger Coathup: A collection of online articles about chess and chess players.
In King’s Gambit, Hoffman interweaves gripping tales from the history of the game and revealing portraits of contemporary chess geniuses into the emotionally charged story of his own recent attempt to get back into tournament chess as an adult -- this time without losing his mind or his humanity. All the while, he grapples with the bizarre, confusing legacy of his own father, who haunts Hoffman’s game and life. In this insider’s look at the obsessive subculture of championship chess, the critically acclaimed author applies the techniques that garnered his earlier work such lavish praise -- the novelistic storytelling and the keen insights -- to his own life and the eccentric, often mysterious lives of the chess pros he knew and has come to know. Intimate, surprising, and often humorous, it’s both Hoffman’s most personal work and his most compelling.
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It is the Luzhin Defence, Roger.
Paul R
BTW are you playing in the British Champs, after all?
Paul R
Roger it's Luzhin Defence I think - though I seem to recall it might have had a different title in the US or something
Paul D
I'm writing a review of it to be published in a couple weeks on my blog. It's an adaption of "the Defense" by Nabokov... Rich
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