Talk:The Defense

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Can someone please verify that his wife's name is Natalia Katkov? I don't remember Nabokov ever actuially mentioning her name in the novel. It might just be a name that was invented for the 2001 movie version. 24.132.202.185 00:40, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I can't find any evidence of the name Katkov appearing in the novel. I've changed the charcter description in the article. Since I can't really prove or verify that she's nameless in the novel I'va added a {{fact}}. If someone has a e-book version a simple search should be enough to resolve this. risk 18:16, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi. She's unnamed in the novel. 82.241.221.24 (talk)

"As his obsession with chess grows, he becomes socially detached and physically unhealthy."

He was socially detached and physically unhealthy from the very beginning. As a child, he received arsenic injections, was ill for a long time shortly after he learned to play chess, and had no friends. --Urod (talk) 05:18, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:16, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Its' a mistake

"At the end, he tracks Luzhin to his apartment in Berlin, hoping to break Luzhin's concentration in favor of the Italian champion Turati."

This is not true. This is not in the novel. Valentinov only wants him in a movie of his. The game with Turati is already history at that point.

82.241.221.24 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 17:37, 24 January 2009 (UTC).

Inspired by the book

Lembit Oll apparently was inspired by this and died in a similar fashion -- http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=41945

Maybe this could be added? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.109.102.12 (talk) 08:33, 24 April 2009 (UTC)