Word: luzhin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that does not help. As the hours slip away and you see life passing you by, you remember the real chess paradigm, Nabokov's Luzhin, the genius who finally apprehends "the full horror and abysmal depths of chess" and goes quite bonkers. And you know you've got to stop...