I see that Arturo Perez-Reverte's novel "The Flanders Panel" uses a chapter epigraph  (VIII) from the "Luzhin Defense." It also provides an nice illustration of "retrograde analysis" that VN mentions in his intro to the English version of the novel.
 
Don Johnson

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