Thus it happened that the illustrious gallery of chess champions, including among their number the most varied types of superior intellect-philosophers, mathematicians, people whose natural talents were computational, imaginative, often creative-was for the first time invaded by a total outsider to the intellectual world, a dull, taciturn peasant lad, from whom even the craftiest newspapermen were never able to coax a single word of any journalistic value.
Horrela gertatu zen xakeko txapeldunen galeria prestuan, non gorentasun intelektualeko tiporik desberdinenak-filosofoak, matematikariak; izaki kalkulatzaile, irudimentsu eta sarritan sortzaileak-biltzen baitziren, lehen aldiz leku egin behar izan zitzaiola adimenaren munduan erabateko outsider zen bati, kazetaririk trebeenak ere argitaratzeko moduko hitz bakar bat ere inoiz atera ez zion baserritar gazte muker eta hitz-urri bati.