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- From: ntmtv!prupisvi@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Victor Prupis)
- Subject: Re: CHESS NOVELS?
- Message-ID: <9301252309.AA08179@phoenix.mtvyp>
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- References: <VeiuXB1w164w@tweekco.uucp> <1jss41INNed7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:09:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.175027.21442@bnrmtl.bnr.ca> gillesf@bnrmtl.bnr.ca
- write:
- >In article <1jss41INNed7@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ck832@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Stephen Leary) writes:
- >
- >[stuff deleted]
- >
- >>Nabokov, Vladimir. THE DEFENSE.
- >
- >In French, the name is "La Defense Loudjine", instead of "La Defense" alone.
- >Nabokov explained that "Loudjine" (beside being the name of the main character)
- >is pronounced in Russian in a way that sounds like "illusion" in English.
- >This is why I find it strange that the title is "The Defense" straight.
- >
- In Russian (the original language) the name is "Zashchita Luzhina"
- which might be transalated as "The Luzhin Defence" (i.e. an opening
- variation) or "Defending Luzhin".
- >
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- >Gilles Fayad (514) 287-1287
- >
- >Unfortunately, my employer is not in the Chess business.
- >Fortunately, it allows me to claim every opinion expressed here as solely
- >mine.
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- >
-
- Victor
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