In 1977, Donner wrote in Schaakbulletin: "Just having turned sixteen, I had been sent to the countryside to feed up a little. There was this girl, too. At our first acquaintance, she lifted her skirt and asked if she had beautiful legs. A future great artist would have reacted differently - Goethe, Wagner, Mulisch (a Dutch writer and a friend of Donner's - TK), but I was paralysed with fright. I did in fact become a chess player, just having mastered the art at that point.
That weekend, she turned out to be God's daughter, as well.
In unfathomable goodness he granted me a game. A Slav opening, he won the endgame."
Being a true chess player, Donner was probably more excited about the fact that the girl's father was the former Wo
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