5/19/2023 0 Comments Chess story by stefan zweig![]() He’s crisscrossed America from coast to coast playing tournaments and is now off to Argentina for fresh triumphs. “That’s a rare bird you’ve got on board - that’s Czentovic.” I must have received this news with a rather blank look, for he went on to explain, “Mirko Czentovic, the world chess champion. As I was standing a bit apart from this hubbub, talking on the promenade deck with an acquaintance of mine, two or three flashbulbs flared near us - apparently the press had been quickly interviewing and photographing some celebrity just before we sailed. ![]() Visitors from shore shoved confusedly to see their friends off, telegraph boys in cocked caps dashed through the lounges shouting names, trunks and flowers were carried past, and inquisitive children ran up and down the companionways, the orchestra playing imperturbably on deck all the while. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological. ![]() ![]() ON THE great passenger steamer, due to depart New York for Buenos Aires at midnight, there was the usual last-minute bustle and commotion. 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. ![]()
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