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A group of passengers (including the narrator and McConnor) play Czentovic in a consultation game, which Czentovic wins. They are about to lose a second game when they are interrupted by Dr B., who prevents them from blundering and guides the party to a draw. Dr B. tells his story to the narrator.
- 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...
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.
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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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. Czentovic is an idiot savant and prodigy with no obvious qualities apart from his talent for chess.
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.
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”.
