# Chess

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- Book: [Chess](https://www.bookquiver.com/stefan-zweig/chess) ([Chess.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stefan-zweig/chess.md))
- Authors: [Stefan Zweig](https://www.bookquiver.com/stefan-zweig)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-506-2
- Published: 2006-01-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In 1941 a cruise ship is heading to Buenos Aires, and on board a group of eager passengers challenge the reigning world chess champion to a match. At first they lose pitifully, until a kind stranger aids by whispering instructions to them - he is a masterful chess player, and as they play, the game itself draws the stranger closer and closer to its secrets. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of the cost of obsession, set in a Central Europe traumatized by the psychological influence of Nazism.