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Von Goom's Gambit by Victor Contoski:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas
"This very funny story was enthusiastically recommended to us by Laurence M. Janifer and, once read, just as enthusiastically acquired for publication in F&SF, It first appeared in Chess Review {but you need not be a chess-player to enjoy it). Its author writes that he is '*30 years old, a graduate student in English at the University of Wisconsin, married, fat, and happy. I have published poetry, translations of modern Polish poetry, and book reviews in a variety of little magazines . . .""—And adds, "By the way, Ym a lousy chess-player."" But a first-rate writer."
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