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Originally Posted by swingdoc
By Curtains' sister no less
FYP to make a kind of Rei Shahade
(it's clear for whom I'm rooting in the US women's championship, isn't it?
).
I can't recall particularly funny titles of the Russian books I've read, but there were some weird plots.
In the 'Oh Chess!' book by Karpov and Gik, this exclamation was repeated in bold every time when the authors wanted to express awe (highlight an amazing move etc.); one more peculiarity is that, after each chapter, there was a section of funny chess anecdotes.
I also have a book with an unremarkable name 'I Play Chess' by Zak and Dlugolensky which, unfortunately, was released in early 1985 and doesn't mention Kasparov or the Polgars at all
(and is the reason why I have a thing for girls resembling the then women's champion Maia Chiburdanidze
), but what's funny about it is that most of the chapters involve the characters of the popular Soviet fairy tale
'Buratino', with them being intertwined with world champions in ridiculous ways, e.g. it's claimed that Tortilla the Turtle's grandmother witnessed
the famous Hewitt vs Steinitz game, Karabas Barabas became the Cuban chess vice-champion behind Capablanca and Basilio the Cat assisted Euwe in the prep for the 1935 championship match.