![]() Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. ![]() He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Never mind that you may have never moved a pawn to King four the story will grip you.' Economist Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was born in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. '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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