The Sixty-Four-Square Madhouse

The Sixty-Four-Square Madhouse

The 64-Square MadhouseSilently, so as not to shock anyone with illusions about well dressed young women, Sandra...
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Author: Leiber, Fritz,1910-1992
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The Sixty-Four-Square Madhouse

The Sixty-Four-Square Madhouse

$17.73 $8.86

The Sixty-Four-Square Madhouse

$17.73 $8.86
Author: Leiber, Fritz,1910-1992
Format: eBook
Language: English

The 64-Square Madhouse

Silently, so as not to shock anyone with illusions about well dressed young women, Sandra Lea Grayling cursed the day she had persuaded the Chicago Space Mirror that there would be all sorts of human interest stories to be picked up at the first international grandmaster chess tournament in which an electronic computing machine was entered. Not that there weren't enough humans around, it was the interest that was in doubt. The large hall was crammed with energetic dark-suited men of whom a disproportionately large number were bald, wore glasses, were faintly untidy and indefinably shabby, had Slavic or Scandinavian features, and talked foreign languages. Chess sets were everywherebig ones on tables, still bigger diagram-type electric ones on walls, small peg-in sets dragged from side pockets and manipulated rapidly as part of the conversational ritual and still smaller folding sets in which the pieces were the tiny magnetized disks used for playing in free-fall. The many clocks, bedside table size, would have struck a familiar note except that they had little red flags and wheels sprinkled over their faces and they were all in pairs, two clocks to a case. That Siamese-twin clocks should be essential to a chess tournament struck Sandra as a particularly maddening circumstance. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 61213
Author: Leiber, Fritz
Release Date: Jan 21, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English

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