# 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: 978-01-4196-849-0
- Published: 2011-02-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of genius.