King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game

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by Paul Hoffman

New Yorker

  New York Sun

  New York Times

  Nigel Short: Chess Prodigy (Short)

  Nigel Short: Quest for the Crown (Forbes)

  Nimzo-Indian Defense

  Nimzowitsch, Aron

  9/11 terrorist attacks

  notation

  Nunn, John

  Oll, Lembit

  Oprah

  Orangutan Opening

  Pageant

  Pandolfini, Bruce

  Panov-Botvinnik Attack

  Pascal, Blaise

  Paulsen, Louis

  pawn

  doubled

  Pein, Malcolm

  Penrose, Jonathan

  Perelshteyn, Eugene

  Perls, Fritz

  Peter I

  Petroff Defense

  Petrosian, Tigran

  Philidor Defense

  Pirc Defense

  Plenty, Tom

  Poisoned Pawn Sicilian

  poker

  Polgar, Judit

  Polgar, Laszlo

  Polgar, Sofia

  Polgar, Susan

  Portnjegina, Yana

  Pravda

  Prison Novelty

  “Problem of Paul Morphy, The” (Jones)

  Professional Chess Association (PCA)

  Pseudo Trompowsky

  Psychoanalytic Review

  “Psychology of Chess, The” (Karpman)

  Putin, Vladimir

  queen

  Queen’s Gambit (Tevis)

  Queen’s Gambit Accepted

  Queen’s Gambit Declined

  Queen’s Indian

  Radjabov, Teimour

  ratings

  Reagan, Ronald

  Ree, Hans

  Reliable Past, The (Sosonko)

  Reshevsky, Samuel

  Richter-Rauzer Variation

  Ritchie, Guy

  Rogers, Ian

  Roma, Giancarlo

  Roma, Tom

  rook

  Rossolimo, Nicholas

  Rossolimo Variation

  rules and history of chess

  Russell, Bertrand

  Russia

  author in

  Kalmykia and

  Ruy Lopez

  sacrifice (sac)

  exchange

  Saddam Hussein

  Safra, Jacqui

  Sagalchik, Gennady

  Saidy, Anthony

  Salov, Valery

  Santos-Dumont, Alberto

  Schonberg, Harold

  Scientific American

  Scotch game

  Scott, George C.

  Searching for Bobby Fischer

  Seirawan, Yasser

  Seuss, Dr.

  Shahade, Greg

  Shahade, Jennifer

  Shahade, Michael

  Sherzer, Alex

  Short, David

  Short, Kyveli

  Short, Nicholas

  Short, Nigel

  background of

  Kamsky’s match with

  Karpov’s match with

  Kasparov and

  Miles and

  Speelman’s match with

  in World Championship

  Short, Rhea

  Sicilian Defense

  Accelerated Dragon

  Closed

  Dragon

  Najdorf

  Poisoned Pawn

  Richter-Rauzer

  Sveshnikov

  Siegel, Noah

  simultaneous exhibitions (simuls)

  with Kasparov

  with Seirawan

  with Stefanova

  Simutowe, Amon

  Skinner, B. F.

  Skripchenko, Almira

  Slav Defense

  …a6 variation of

  Exchange Variation of

  Sloan, Sam

  Smithsonian

  Smyslov, Vassily

  Sokolov, Andrei

  Sosonko, Genna

  Soviet Union, see Russia

  Spanier, David

  Spassky, Boris

  Fischer’s 1972 match with

  King’s Gambit and

  Spectator

  Speelman, Jonathan

  Spraggett, Kevin

  Stalin, Joseph

  Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

  Staunton, Howard

  Stefanova, Antoaneta

  Steiner, George

  Steinitz, Wilhelm

  suicide

  Sunday Telegraph

  Sunday Times

  Sveshnikov, Evgeny

  Sveshnikov opening

  Svidler, Peter

  Taimanov, Mark

  Tal, Mikhail

  Taliban

  Tarrasch, Siegbert

  Taylor, Lord

  Temple University

  testosterone

  Tevis, Walter

  Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)

  Times (London)

  Timman, Jan

  Topalov, Veselin

  Torre, Carlos

  touch move rule

  tournaments

  at Marshall Chess Club

  Tregubov, Pavel

  Tripoli, see Libya

  Trompowsky

  Pseudo

  Trotsky, Leon

  Truong, Paul

  Two Knights Defense

  United States Chess Federation (USCF)

  University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

  U.S. Chess Championship

  of 2002

  of 2003

  of 2005

  USSR Championship

  U.S. Women’s Championship

  Vaganian, Rafael

  Vancouver Sun

  Vienna game

  Viewing Gallery

  Vitolins, Alvis

  Voltaire

  Von Bardeleben, Curt

  Von Neumann, John

  Waitzkin, Fred

  Waitzkin, Josh

  Wall Street Journal

  Webb, Simon

  Weeramantry, Sunil

  Weser, Adam

  Williams, Owen

  William the Conqueror

  Winfrey, Oprah

  Wings of Madness (Hoffman)

  Wojtkiewicz, Aleksander

  women

  chess players

  Gadhafi on

  Women’s Continental Championship

  Women’s World Championship

  world champions

  World Championship

  World Chess Beauty Contest

  World Chess Cup (2006)

  World Open (2006)

  Worrall Attack

  Yeltsin, Boris

  Yoos, Jack

  Yudina, Larisa

  Yugoslav Attack

  Zagainov, Rudolf

  Zatonskih, Anna

  ZMD

  Zukertort, Johanne

  Zweig, Stefan

  About the Author

  Paul Hoffman was president of Encyclopedia Britannica and editor-in-chief of Discover, and is the author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers and The Wings of Madness. He is the winner of the first National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, Time, and Atlantic Monthly. He lives in Woodstock, NY.

  OTHER BOOKS by PAUL HOFFMAN

  Wings of Madness

  The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

  Archimedes’ Revenge

  Copyright

  KING’S GAMBIT. Copyright © 2007 Paul Hoffman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Hyperion e-books.

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  * Greg Infanti, the bartender who was on duty during my most productive late-night writing marathons, was unaware of the old Russian proverb “Chess and wine are born brothers.” There are many stories about the drinking habits of the Russian players who have dominated chess for more than half a century. Efim Bogoljubow (1899–1952) was a chubby, bombastic drunkard known for his delusional thinking that he was invincible: “When I play White, I win because I have the first move. When I play Black, I win because I’m Bogoljubow!” He reportedly knew only one word of English and, to the delight of his fellow players, had a chance to use it at the great international tournament at Nottingham in 1936. When a waiter in the hotel asked him for his room number, Bogoljubow replied, “Beer.” Bogoljubow died of a heart attack in 1952 after giving an exhibition in which he played several opponents simultaneously (Grandmasters of Chess, Haro Schonberg, 1972: J. B. Lippincott, p.162).

  * In 1975, Rossolimo’s body was found at the bottom of a flight of stairs in his Greenwich Village apartment building. He had apparently been drinking, lost his footing, and fatally banged his head.

 

 

 


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