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In case anyone's wondering about the title (the article is about Fischer, but not about anyone defending him from anything, nor about any chess opening that bea

by gjm11 15y ago

In case anyone's wondering about the title (the article is about Fischer, but not about anyone defending him from anything, nor about any chess opening that bears his name, nor about how he defended in a difficult chess position), I'm pretty sure it's an allusion to Nabokov's novel "Luzhin's Defense" (the English translation is simply titled "The Defense"), about a gifted chess player who gradually falls into insanity as the novel progresses. (It doesn't entirely fit Fischer, who seems to have done most of his going-mad after retiring from his chess career rather than during it, but never mind.)

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- barrkel 15y ago
  It might not be - it might be ghost-written or translated, and certainly has been edited etc. - but it is presented and bylined as though written by Kasparov. Do you have specific other information?
  - jonnathanson 15y ago
    Kasparov is an accomplished and prolific analyst and writer on a wide variety of subjects, and especially (and obviously) chess. Furthermore, this article matches his general writing style -- at least as I've encountered it over the years, across any number of publications. If he's got a ghostwriter, it's the same ghostwriter every time. More likely, however, it's just him. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. He's a sharp guy and a sharp writer.
  - mturmon 15y ago
    Kasparov writes for the New York Review occasionally. People here would be even more interested in: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-chess-master-and-the-computer/?pagination=false http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-che... which is his reminisces on his several chess matches with computers, and at the end a couple of remarks on poker versus chess.
- DanielStraight 15y ago
  The article is more or less a book review, written by Kasparov, about a book written by Frank Brady. That book is a biography of Fischer. The title of the article is The Bobby Fischer Defense. The title of the book is Endgame. It's a little confusing, but all the information is there.
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barrkel 15y ago
It might not be - it might be ghost-written or translated, and certainly has been edited etc. - but it is presented and bylined as though written by Kasparov. Do you have specific other information?
- jonnathanson 15y ago
  Kasparov is an accomplished and prolific analyst and writer on a wide variety of subjects, and especially (and obviously) chess. Furthermore, this article matches his general writing style -- at least as I've encountered it over the years, across any number of publications. If he's got a ghostwriter, it's the same ghostwriter every time. More likely, however, it's just him. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. He's a sharp guy and a sharp writer.
- mturmon 15y ago
  Kasparov writes for the New York Review occasionally. People here would be even more interested in: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-chess-master-and-the-computer/?pagination=false http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-che... which is his reminisces on his several chess matches with computers, and at the end a couple of remarks on poker versus chess.
DanielStraight 15y ago
The article is more or less a book review, written by Kasparov, about a book written by Frank Brady. That book is a biography of Fischer. The title of the article is The Bobby Fischer Defense. The title of the book is Endgame. It's a little confusing, but all the information is there.

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