And he would aim for certain kinds of elegance in them.

他正是想从中习得这种悠然
He never wanted to have an alternate solution.

他从未想过获得替代方法
He always wanted to have a single kind of solution.

他从来都只想要一个独一无二的方法
There are certain themes in chess that refer to different kinds of strategic movements

象棋的布局涉及到种种战术
that he would bring out through these little arrangements,

他会对其做些小的安排以展现他的战术
and he would spend inordinate amounts of time organizing them.

而且他会无节制地花时间去组织它们
Let me read to you how he describes the action of setting one of these things up:

让我给你们读一下他是怎么描述布局步骤的
"It should be understood that competition in chess problems is not

"人们应该明白象棋中的竞争并非仅存
really between white and black, but between the composer and the

黑白二子之间还存于棋局的设计者
hypothetical solver.

与假想的解棋者之间
Just as in a first-rate work of fiction, the real clash is not

就像一流的小说创作真正地冲突并不发生在角色身上
between the characters, but between the author and the world.

而应产生于作者与这个世界之间