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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…
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
Each story has at its heart an extreme emotion, from the monomania of the man who learnt chess by memorising games from a book while a prisoner in “The Royal Game”, to the young woman’s adoring, obsessive love for her writer neighbour in “Letter from an Unknown Woman”.
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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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- Stefan Zweig
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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The Royal Game. Stefan Zweig. Pushkin Press, Aug 31, 2007 - Fiction - 96 pages. On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, an electifying encounter takes place between the reigning world chess...
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