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纳博科夫喜爱编棋题,这是他在欧洲流亡期间养成的嗜好。为了构思一道特别的棋题,他甚至会一连花上好几个月的时间,煞费苦心地设计各种精巧的骗着和虽然简单却最出人意料的正解。纳博科夫后来曾感叹,在他精力最充沛也最多产的岁月里,这一美丽、复杂而又刻板的艺术吞噬了他太多本该用于写作的时间。编棋题让他体验到一种精神愉悦的刺痛,得以暂时忘却流亡的艰辛和苦痛。他也从中悟到了写作的奥秘,作者和读者的关系
Nabokov loves the chess quiz, a hobby he developed during his exile in Europe. In order to devise a special theme, he would even spend months and again painstakingly designing all kinds of elaborate deceit and simple but unexpected surprises. Nabokov later lamented that in his most energetic and productive years, this beautiful, complex and rigid art devoured too much of his time for writing. The chess piece allowed him to experience a tingling of pleasure and pleasure, to temporarily forget the hardship and pain of exile. He also realized the mystery of writing, the relationship between author and reader