从表面上看,国际象棋只是一种无声的智力竞赛,其实,围绕着国际象棋世界锦标赛和象棋手本身,却有许多并非无声的奇闻怪事。一九八一年五月,离当年的国际象棋世界锦标赛开幕的时间还有几个月,一个苏联的官方代表团来到了比赛地点、意大利北部小城梅兰诺,住进一幢孤零零的别墅。六月,一名苏联科学家带着盖革计数器(注:一种用来测量敏射性的仪器)把别墅 On the surface, chess is just a quirky quiz. In fact, there are many nonsense oddities around the Chess World Championship and chess players themselves. In May 1981, a few months before the opening of the Chess World Championship of the year, an official Soviet delegation came to the site of a solitary villa in Merano, a small town in northern Italy. In June, a Soviet scientist brought a Geiger counter (Note: a device used to measure sensitivity) to the villa