"Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic."
—Mikhail Botvinnik on Chess
He glanced at the chessboard and his brain wilted from hitherto unprecedented weariness. But the chessmen were pitiless, they held and absorbed him. There was horror in this, but in this also was the sole harmony, for what else exists in the world besides chess?
—Luzhin. The Defense. Vladimir Nabokov.
When I read this novel, I felt swept up into the same chess fever as Luzhin. I would be sitting at a cafe contemplating how the salt shaker could capture the pepper shaker in a single knight move, forking my plate and napkin. To be honest though, I identified more with the young Italian grandmaster whose style more closely represents my own.
Fog, the unknown, non-being.
omg.. good work, brother
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