5/31/2019 – Vladimir Nabokov was a fiction writer, a lepidopterist and a composer of chess problems, with his love for the royal game a transparent feature in his work. More than once, chess came up during his interviews and public appearances. With thanks to researcher Sergio Negri, we shed light on two of these appearances, when Nabokov gives some insights into his conceptualization of chess. | Picture: Graffiti of Vladimir Nabokov in Opatija, Croatia, via Wikimedia Commons. | Photo: Henry Kellner

3/11/2018 – He faced the process of writing as a "literary chess problem", and considered the composition of chess problems to be comparable to poetry. Vladimir Nabokov was one of the most celebrated creators of bridges between art and chess. | Pictured: Nabokov in 1973 | Photo: Walter Mori