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  1. Feb 17, 2020 · A Chess Story [also published as Chess and A Royal Game], from 1941, is the third Zweig novella I’ve read and the best so far – a really astonishing achievement in so few pages. Translated by Alexander Starritt, I should say – someone at my book group had a very different translation, based on our comparison of the first few lines, but it ...

  2. Story Time Chess is a web-based curriculum that introduces chess to young children using silly stories, vibrant illustrations, "chessercises”, and fun gameplay. The stories and practice materials communicate the rules and strategy of chess to children ages 3 and up in a way that makes learning chess simple and fun.

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  3. Czentovic’s father, a penniless Yugoslavian Danube bargeman, had been killed in his tiny boat when it was crushed one night by a grain steamer in a remote area; the twelve-year-old boy had then been taken in by the local parson out of pity. The good reverend coached him at home, doing his level best to make up for what the lumpish, taciturn ...

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  4. Dec 31, 2021 · Chess story by Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942. Publication date 2006 Publisher New York : New York Review Books Collection ... Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key ...

  5. Dec 25, 2023 · Find in other nearby digital libraries. "Chess Story," also known as "The Royal Game," is Stefan Zweig's compelling novella that unfolds on a passenger steamer. It narrates the psychological duel between Mirko Czentovic, a chess champion with a mysterious past, and Dr. B, a reclusive genius. Set against the backdrop of World War II, the story ...

  6. Dec 9, 2005 · Stefan Zweig. New York Review of Books, Dec 9, 2005 - Fiction - 104 pages. Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does ...

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  8. An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig. Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to ...

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