Question
In the foreword to a novel, this author compared his rereading of it to chess master Adolf Anderssen recalling the “Immortal Game.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of a novel in which the imprisonment of “The Beloved” is likened to a solus rex chess puzzle. In that novel by this author, a poet plays chess with his wife after their daughter Hazel drowns in an icy lake.
ANSWER: Vladimir Nabokov (The novel is Pale Fire.)
[10h] The protagonist is mentored by the ruthless Valentinov in this Nabokov novel that culminates in a disastrous chess match against the Italian grandmaster Turati, after which the protagonist jumps out of a “frosted window.”
ANSWER: The Defense [or The Luzhin Defense]
[10e] Nabokov’s Poems and Problems includes 18 original chess puzzles alongside the poem “Lilith,” which is sometimes read as a precursor to a later novel about this title “nymphet” pursued by Humbert Humbert.
ANSWER: Lolita
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 11.43 | 100% | 0% | 14% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Penn B | Bard A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Haverford A | Johns Hopkins B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Penn State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Princeton A | Penn State B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rowan A | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Lehigh A | Rutgers A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |