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3 unusual facts about Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw


Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw

It presents a fictionalised account of a famous 1910 World Chess Championship match between Austrian grandmaster Carl Schlechter and the reigning German champion Emanuel Lasker.

The Guardian called it "strikingly good" and said that it was "one of chess's finest novels, sitting comfortably alongside Nabokov's The Luzhin Defense and Paolo Maurensig's The Lüneburg Variation".

Thomas Glavinic

Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw (Carl Haffners Liebe zum Unentschieden), translated by John Brownjohn.



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