Competing alongside Luzhin in the championship is Dottore Salvatore Turati ( Fabio Sartor ), who is approached by Leo Valentinov ( Stuart Wilson ), a Russian, who is Luzhin's former chess tutor from pre-revolutionary Russia.

The competition starts badly for Luzhin who is unsettled by the presence of his former friend and coach.

However on the morning of the wedding, Luzhin is put into a car with Valentinov, who tells him that there is the small matter of finishing the competition.

* Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin ( Пётр Петрович Лужин ) – A well-off lawyer who is engaged to Raskolnikov's sister Dunya in the beginning of the novel.

The Luzhin Defence is a 2000 film directed by Marleen Gorris, starring John Turturro and Emily Watson.

Luzhin wanders aimlessly until he collapses and is found by a group of Blackshirts.

Luzhin is taken to the hospital suffering from complete mental exhaustion.

The chess position they play for the final between Turati and Luzhin is already a winning position for Black ( Luzhin ), even though Black is down on material.

Nevertheless Luzhin ( White ) is shown playing the illegal winning move to wild applause from the audience.

The sequence is as follows, Luzhin has just played his rook to e8 ( check ) although it is not clear if this was a capture or not.

It is for these very reasons that the two of them come to Saint Petersburg, both to meet Luzhin there and to attain Raskolnikov's approval.

Luzhin, however, calls on Raskolnikov while he is in a delirious state and presents himself as a foolish, self-righteous and presuming man.

Meanwhile, Razumikhin and Raskolnikov manage to keep Avdotya from continuing her relationship with Luzhin, whose true character is exposed to be conniving and base.

It is separated from Shumshu by the very narrow Second Kuril Strait in the northeast, from Antsiferov by the Luzhin Strait ( 15 km ) to the southwest, from Atlasov in the northwest by, and from Onnekotan in the south by the 40 km wide Fourth Kuril Strait.

The screenplay was based on the novel The Defense ( or The Luzhin Defence ) by Vladimir Nabokov.

It's the early 1920s and Aleksandr Ivanovich ' Sascha ' Luzhin ( Turturro ), a gifted but tormented chess player, arrives in a Northern Italian city to compete in an international chess competition.

Valentinov tells the Italian that Luzhin cannot handle pressure and he intimates he will make sure that his former prodigy will be unsettled off-table giving Turati a winning chance.

Meanwhile Luzhin goes on to reach the final and face Turati.

Nevertheless even while recuperating Valentinov comes around with a chess board encouraging Luzhin to finish the match with the Italian, Turati.

Eventually Luzhin leaves the hospital.

In terror, Luzhin leaps from the car.

Turati does exactly what Luzhin expected and loses.

Katkov and Turati then leave acknowledging the Pyrrhic victory and the genius of Luzhin.

The tournament had been paused after Luzhin had a nervous breakdown which had been caused by extreme strain.

Avdotya, having none of this, fled the family and lost her source of income, only to meet Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, a man of modest income and rank.

Luzhin proposes to marry Avdotya, thereby securing her and her mother's financial safety, provided she accept him quickly and without question.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

but there is a leavening of liberalism among college graduates throughout the South, especially among those who studied in the North.

but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

To him, law is the command of the sovereign ( the English monarch ) who personifies the power of the nation, while sovereignty is the power to make law -- i.e., to prevail over internal groups and to be free from the commands of other sovereigns in other nations.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.

The Zero Hour mini-series muddied the waters further by merging the different Hawkmen into a " Hawkgod ", who was the focus character in the third volume of the monthly Hawkman series.

In 1794 several groups of Wensley miners who had buddled mine waste in the river Derwent above and below Darley Bridge were brought to court, accused of polluting the river Witnesses described the river as being muddied as far down-river as a mile below Cromford Bridge, and a Matlock publican claimed to have been prevented from his usual practice of using river water for his brewing by the state of the Derwent.

Taviani also alleged in an August 2000 interview to Il Secolo XIX newspaper: " It seems to me certain, however, that agents of the CIA were among those who supplied the materials and who muddied the waters of the investigation.

" Another man who shared the room at the " Pear Tree " with Williams said that he had found his own stockings muddied and hidden behind a chest, and concluded that Williams had worn his stockings out that night and had gotten them dirty.