# 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_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4163-082-2
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2023-05-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

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 the past.