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Lit & Chess

Andy Lee

I'm a FIDE Master and studied English in college, so I'll be writing about chess and books on a semi-regular basis.

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Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue

In 1936 George Orwell, real name Eric Blair, future author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, wrote an essay about his experiences as a British imperial police officer in Burma. “Shooting an Elephant” is the kind of essay that is wide...

6 days ago
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Lost in Translation

A couple weeks ago I was invited to contribute a set of annotations from rounds three and four of the Olympiad for Chess Life Online. The deal was that I would focus on the performance of the American teams by annotating some key games, and...

14 days ago
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Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

It took me a long time to read To the Lighthouse. I was assigned the novel in an English class in my senior year in high school, and I dutifully read all the words contained therein, taking note, as I had been trained to do, of style (strea...

18 days ago
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The Steroid Era of Everything

I grew up rooting for one of the greatest cheaters of all time. Other athletes of his era might have taken more shortcuts to stardom, but very few of them reached the same heights. In the early 2000s, Barry Bonds was inevitable.

It takes a...

24 days ago
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Comedy of Errors

Ben Mezrich’s account of the Carlsen-Niemann affair, Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess, hit bookstores across America early this summer. This week a staff writer at Lit & Chess received an anonymous email c...

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