Chess story zweig6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ‘The rediscovery of this extraordinary writer could well be on a par with last year’s refinding of the long-lost Stoner, by John Williams, and which similarly could pluck his name out of a dusty obscurity.’ Simon Winchester, Telegraph ‘Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game. But in agreeing to take on Czentovic, what price will Dr B ultimately pay? A moving portrait of one man’s madness, A Chess Story is a searing examination of the power of the mind and the evil it can do. But there is another passenger with a passion for chess: Dr B, previously driven to insanity during Nazi imprisonment by the chess games in his imagination. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game, before beating each of them and taking their money. ![]() Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig. ![]() An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. ![]()
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