alice through the looking glass 1998 lewis

P.182) where it is accompanied by Nabokov's succinct comment 'composed It has sinceīeen reproduced in chess diagram format, in Poems and Problems (1972, Of his autobiography, Speak, Memory/Conclusive Evidence. Problem in question was incorporated by Nabokov into Chapter Fourteen Shortly after its publication in the Partisan Review, the chess I would not like to think that New Yorker readers could be moreīewildered by my chess problem (which occupies only a few lines) thanĭodgson's little readers' (Selected Letters, 99). Looking Glass' carries a very subtle and difficult chess problem, and Remember that the frontispiece to the first edition of 'Alice in the 'When coming to the last pages of the piece 'Exile,' please Mysterious way, to the chess game plotted by Lewis Carroll in Through This chess problem was extremely important and was related, in some A letter sent in March 1950 by Nabokov to his New YorkerĮditor and friend Katharine White confirms that the author thought Originally published in the article 'Exile' in the Partisan Review inĮarly 1951, following its earlier rejection by the New Yorker Nabokov's key chess problem and its accompanying commentary were

The solution displayed here in animated form (scrolling down, also more informations and links)Īgainst Lewis Carroll - played out in the symbolic language of chess.

The alternation of Red and White is perhaps not so strictly observed as it might be, and the “castling” of the three Queens is merely a way of saying that they entered the palace but the “check” of the White King at move 6, the capture of the Red Knight at move 7, and the final “checkmate” of the Red King, will be found, by any one who will take the trouble to set the pieces and play the moves as directed, to be strictly in accordance with the laws of the game. R's 6th (soup)Īs the chess-problem, given on the previous page, has puzzled some of my readers, it may be well to explain that it is correctly worked out, so far as the moves are concerned. (examination)ġ0 Alice castles (feast) W.Q. B's 5thĨ Alice to Q's 8th (coronation) R. B's 8th (leaves egg on shelf)ĥ Alice to Q's 6th (Humpty Dumpty) W.Q. B's 5th (becomes sheep)Ĥ Alice to Q's 5th (shop, river, shop) W.Q. to Q.B's 4th (after shawl)ģ Alice meets W.Q. Alice through Q's 3d (by railway) to Q's 4th 1872 White Pawn (Alice) to play, and win in eleven moves.Ģ.

Alice through the looking glass 1998 lewis