dahell going on over here?
"Forbes' central hypothesis, that Through the Looking-Glass serves as
a treatise on the Sicilian Defence, rests on what the critic sees as the novel's
representation of three distinguishing features which often characterize this
opening system: (1) The White King's Knight and Black Queen's Knight's struggle
over the d4 Square, (2) The weakness of Black's Pawn on d6 (or of the d6 square
in general), and (3) The White Queen's Knight's struggle to control or influence d5."