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  1. The Royal Game (also known as Chess Story; in the original German Schachnovelle, "Chess Novella") is a novella by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig written in 1941, the year before the author's death by suicide. [1]

    • Stefan Zweig
    • 1943
  2. Oct 2, 2020 · Edited by Herbert Lieberman. 2 illustrations by Erhard Göttlicher. 707p. Biographical sketch, p. 604. "The Royal Game", pp. (357)-408. [2001]: Pushkin Press, London. The Royal Game [Schachnovelle]. Translated by Benjamin W. Huebsch. 79p. Cover illustration by André. Review: Mark Thwaite. "'Royal Game' by Stefan Zweig" in ReadySteadyBook - for ...

  3. Oct 16, 2020 · Together with his acquaintance Mc Connor and other chess players, the first-person narrator manages to challenge the world champion to a game of chess. As expected, Mc Connor and the others clearly lose the first game.

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  4. Jul 1, 2001 · The stranger's diffident manner masks his extraordinary ability to challenge the Grand Master in a game of chess; it also conceals his dark and damaged past, the horror of which emerges as the game unfolds. Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family.

  5. Read “The Royal Game”, by Stefan Zweig online on Bookmate – On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, an electifying encounter takes place between the reigning world chess champion and an unknown passe….

  6. The psychological novella The Royal Game (1944; Schachnovelle, 1942) is of special importance within Stefan Zweig's oeuvre since it was his last work, written shortly before his suicide in 1942 and published posthumously in Buenos Aires in the same year.

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  8. 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 challenge him in the game, before beating each of them and taking their money.

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