Character details
- First Name
- Ernst
- Last Name
- Hausman
- Notes
- Wealthy retired broker and half-owner of a big Wall Street firm, 72, childless widower. One of the founders of the Gambit Club, owns the finest collection of chessmen in the world. Would give 10 million dollars to be able to defeat a chess master without odds.
- Reserved Notes
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Character cases:
One of the 4 messengers during Jerin's simul at the Gambit Club. During his first interview with Wolfe, Hausman asks for a game of chess, and they begin playing a Queen's Gambit Declined opening.
Reserved notes for this caseThe line Hausman expected Wolfe to take was the Cambridge Springs Defense, a.k.a. the Pillsbury defense (named for the tournament in which it was introduced and the master who introduced it).