White to play and win in eleven moves!

It certainly does look like a page flew off from the Howard Staunton classic, 'The chess player's hand book' with all that antique and elegant chess notations(long before the boring and simple algebraic System was invented).  But this is how the book, 'Through the looking glass: What Alice found there', the famous sequel of 'Alice in Wonderland' begins. (Yeah. I admit; I didn't know ) . May be after watching Tim Burton's latest movie adaptation  of Lewis Carrol's classic 'Alice in Wonderland' , I just got curious about the book and the man who wrote it. Tim Burton's adaption is about the sequel, not the original book though the Movie name suggested that its about the original. Though the movie was all colorful and  Johny Depp, the 'hatter' and Mia Wasikovska,  the 'Alice' were  fun to watch, elements of gore were more gory than children, the intended viewer probably could appreciate.Anyways,the  beautifully animated, 'Cheshire', the evaporating cat was doubtlessly my favorite.

 It seems like the entire literature world is arguing on to conclude whether Charles Lutwidge Dodgson(Lewis Carrol was his pen name) was in fact a pedophile or not even after 100 years of his death. Known to be a great creative photographer of his times, he found  nude children, a subject of interest when it came to his photographic adventures. I may like to agree with those critics who believe that this assumption is a byproduct of  viewing a 19th century creation with the eye of a 21st century critique. Let the arguments go on as long as the world has nothing better to do, but the unimaginable talent of Lewis Carrol will be remembered for ever for all his out of the world fantasies and creations which amused children and grownups for hundreds of years.