Author: GuyHaworth
Date: 04:16:34 11/05/03
Maybe OT, as this doesn't involve computers directly.
An observation from "Images of Beckett" by John Haynes and James Knowlson:
"Chess was a lifetime passion with Beckett and found its way into several of his
works {13}. He idolised Capablanca and Alekhin and had dozens of chess books in
his library. He was an avid fan of the chess column in Le Monde and played chess
regularly for more than twenty years with his painter friend, Henri Hayden. The
Surrealist painter and chess Grand Master, Marcel Duchamp, was, Beckett told me
[Jim Knowlson], much too good for him. Yet he said this with the quiet
satisfaction of knowing that he had played against someone of that calibre."
Footnote 13 reads:
"For example, Murphy in Beckett's novel of that name plays a game of chess
against Mr Endon and Endgame, the title of which itself derives from chess
terminology, also has elements that it shares with the game, for example, Hamm's
opening 'Me to play'."
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