On an ocean voyage from New York to Buenos Aires, a group of amateur chess enthusiasts challenge the great world chess champion, Czentovic, to a game. At first they lose, but then the tables begin to turn. Just who is the mysterious man of such deathly pallor who guides their every move...?
A novella of mystery and intrigue and an enduring tale of the unbreakable human spirit, Chess Story was first published in 1941 and has remained popular ever since.
This is a new English translation of "Schachnovelle" by Stefan Zweig, translated by Nicholas Stephens.
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