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From: David Haan
The problem is unpublished, composed 75/76, just a curiousity set aside until I encountered the notes to the unfinished short story in "Nabokov's Butterflies" (comparison to the Question Mark Anglewing resolved on last index card: "maroon marked underside with a silvery exclamation mark beneath on the hindwing"). Punctuating it with another of the arts Nabokov practiced seemed apt (though naming problems is more a 19th century practice).
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Haan
> To: NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 9:29 AM
> Subject: Chess problem
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> The Admirable Anglewing:
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> W: Kg1; Ne3,e7; Bf6
> B: Kd4; Nb6,e5
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> Helpmate in 3
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> Solution: 1. Kc5 Nc8 2. Nc6 Na7 3. Nd4 Be7
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> Piece configuration changes from "?" in initial setting to "!" as W executes coup de grace.
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> ;D
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