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This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Plot summary. An anonymous narrator opens the story by describing the boarding of a passenger liner traveling from New York to Buenos Aires. One of the passengers is world chess champion Mirko Czentovic.
- Stefan Zweig
- 1943
Unlock the more straightforward side of The Royal Game with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig which...
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 so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological.
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig which tackles the themes of insanity and passion, as well as the reality of the Second World War, metaphorically through a chess tournament.
Dec 27, 2023 · At its heart, “The Royal Game” unfolds aboard a cruise ship sailing through the South Atlantic. The stage is set when a seemingly ordinary passenger, Dr. B., stumbles upon a particularly intense chess match between two of the ship’s elite passengers.
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.
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Oct 12, 2016 · This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig which tackles the themes of insanity and passion, as well as the reality of the Second World War, metaphorically through a chess tournament.