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making a mental note to read this at some favorable time. we ought to read more chess-themed fiction. there's Nabokov, for example, whom we haven't gotten to yet ~Chara
In this case, for me, the story could equally be about checkers, or knitting, or writing limericks. But it is really nice that it's about chess, for chess' sake.