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"Chess," the fantastic read-in-one-sitting novella by Stefan Zweig, weaves the psychological intricacies of human nature with the strategic logics of the royal game. Set against the backdrop of World War II era political and social violence, Zweig crafts a narrative in 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...


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In Zweig's classic novella, an epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of Nazi persecution, madness, and obsession. "Perhaps the best chess story ever written." --Economist A Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game,...
Release Date: Oct 6, 2026
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Sur un paquebot s'opposent deux champions d' checs que tout s pare: le champion du monde en titre, d'une origine modeste mais tacticien redoutable, et un aristocrate qui n'a pu pratiquer que mentalement, isol dans une ge le priv e pendant l'occupation de l'Autriche par les nazis...

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Stefan Zweig's posthumously published Chess Story is the tale of a legendary chess match played on an ocean liner leaving Nazi-occupied Europe. The world champion and a man who attained mastery of chess during a harrowing ordeal are locked in a battle that becomes far more...
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Un crucero que cubre la ruta de Nueva York a Buenos Aires es el escenario de una singular partida de ajedrez. El arrogante campe n del mundo, que acude a la capital argentina a defender su t tulo, se enfrenta a un pomposo millonario escoc s y al narrador de la historia. Al unirse...
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With no capacity for any other intellectual activity, Mirko Czentovicz revealed himself as a world champion chess genius. But, on a boat trip from New York to Buenos Aires, he is presented with an enigmatic opponent: Mr. B., a Viennese nobleman fleeing from the Nazis. One of...
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Eine beklemmende Erkundung von Isolation, Intellekt und den Feinheiten des menschlichen Geistes auf einem Schachbrett mitten auf hoher See. "Die Schachnovelle" ist eine Novelle des österreichischen Autors Stefan Zweig. Das Werk wurde posthum im Jahr 1942 veröffentlicht und zählt...
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es la ltima novela del escritor austriaco Stefan Zweig escrita poco antes de su suicidio, ocurrido el 22 de febrero de 1942. Fue publicada de forma p stuma en 1944. El relato es una cr tica clara contra el nazismo y los m todos de la Gestapo, la incomunicaci n y el exilio forzado,...
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Una de las obras m s conocidas de Stefan Zweig, traducida a m s de cuarenta idiomas y una exitosa lectura escolar. Una pieza indispensable de la literatura universal. El 21 de febrero de 1942, dos d as antes de poner fin a su vida junto a su segunda...
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In Stefan Zweigs meisterhaftem Werk 'Schachnovelle' entfaltet sich ein psychologisches Drama, das im Kontext der gesellschaftlichen Umw lzungen der 1930er Jahre eingebettet ist. Die Erz hlung folgt einem gefangenen Schachmeister, der in der Isolation psychische K mpfe ausfechten...
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Stefan Zweig: Schachnovelle Auf einem Passagierdampfer, auf der Passage von New York nach Buenos Aires, kommt es zu einer au ergew?hnlichen Konfrontation: Der amtierende Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic, ein derber Mensch, dessen Inselbegabung f?r Schach verloren in charakterlicher...