by Paul Hoffman
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
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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 sto
ries 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.
