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White to move and mate in two #444 — The 64-Square Madhouse [1]
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Date: 2023-12-14
Chess In Literature
Edited by Marcello Truzzi
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When in the name of Heaven, was the Machine going to make its next move? Surely it had already taken more than four minutes! But a glance at its clock showed him that hardly half that time had gone by. He decided he had made a mistake in asking again for the screens. It was easier to watch those damned lights blink than have them blink in his imagination.
Oh, if chess could only be played in intergalactic space, in the black privacy of one’s thoughts. But there had to be the physical presence of the opponent with his (possibly deliberate) unnerving mannerisms—Lasker and his cigar. Capablanca and his red necktie, Nimzowitsch and his nervous contortions (very like Bela Grabo’s, though the latter did not see it that way). And now this ghastly flashing, humming, stinking, button-banging metal monster!
Actually, he told himself, he was asked to play two opponents, the Machine and Simon Great, a sort of consultation team. It wasn’t fair!
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— Fritz Leiber
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