He traveled from city to city, always staying in the cheapest hotels, he played in the most pathetic clubs as long as they paid his fee, he permitted himself to appear in soap advertisements, and even-ignoring the mockery of his competitors, who knew quite well that he couldn't put three sentences together-sold his name for use on the cover of a Philosophy of Chess which had actually been written for the enterprising publisher by an insignificant Galician student.
Hiriz hiri ibiltzen zen, beti hotelik merkeenetan ostatu hartuz, klubik ziztrinenetan jokatuz, ordainsariak ordaintzen bazizkioten behintzat; xaboi-iragarkietarako erabili zuen bere irudia eta, bere aurkarien isekengatik batere kezkatu gabe-izan ere, bai baitzekiten ez zela gai hiru esaldi zuzen idazteko-, bere izena eman zion Xakearen filosofia bati, zeina Galitziako ikasle ezezagun batek editore zuhur batentzat idatzia baitzen.