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Saturday, September 9, 2006

Saturday September 9, 2006

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:07 pm
For Frank Morley‘s Birthday:

The Board

On chess and fiction:

“As Boileau-Narcejac* admirably said: ‘The creator invents the chessboard, the serial writer invents the moves.'” —Moez Lahmedi 

Quoted by Marc Lits in Pour lire le roman policier, Bruxelles-Paris, De Boeck-Duculot, 1989, p. 7. 

The Moves

 “Problems are the poetry of chess.
 They demand from the composer
 the same virtues that characterize
 all worthwhile art:
 originality, invention,
 harmony, conciseness,
 complexity, and
 splendid insincerity.”

Vladimir Nabokov

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