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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. 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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  3. Dec 31, 2021 · Chess story Bookreader Item Preview ... Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key ... Full catalog record MARCXML.

  4. Aug 24, 2024 · In partnership with. Chess players, If you’re looking for chess improvement resources that don’t cost anything, here are 5 classic chess books available for free download: Seventy-Five Chess Problems by John Thursby. 121 Chess Problems by J. W. Abbott. 200 Chess Problems by Frank Healey. 777 Chess Miniature s in Three by E. Wallis.

  5. In this 700-page col­lec­tion, “there are 20 chap­ters, about 200 top­ics with­in them, and over 1,000 [chess] posi­tions dis­cussed.”. Now for the even bet­ter part: Farnsworth has also made these vol­umes avail­able free online. Just vis­it chesstactics.org and scroll down the page.

  6. Sep 23, 2022 · Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942 -- Translations into English, Zweig, Stefan, 1881-1942, Short stories, German -- Translations into English, Short stories, German Publisher Richmond, Surrey : Alma Classics Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 823.9M

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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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