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| Machado de Assis around age 56, c.1896 [Wikipedia] |
Machado's presence here may surprise many, but Vladimir Nabokov is not the only famous writer who composed problems. Machado de Assis composed at least one problem, a simple twomover:
De Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado
Ilustração Brasileira, 1876
Ilustração Brasileira, 1876
| #2 | 8 + 6 |
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Roberto Stelling adds about Machado de Assis:
"He was a good friend of Arthur Napoleão and often played chess with him. His composition was published on page 11 of "Caissana Brasileira", 1898, but was probably composed many years before that."
