GRAND MASTER
Published in Russian in Vospominaniya ob Akademike A. B. Migdale, Ed. N. O. Agasyan et al., (Fizmatlit, Moscow, 2003), p. 58. Translated from Russian by James Manteith.
Certain questions have long concerned me: how sure is the flow of life? In what way does it depend on the decisions we make and the paths we choose? This dependence almost always seems weak and short-lived, however much pride we may take in our foresight. But there are also special points when the line of our fate leads in multiple directions and choice decides everything…