# 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: 978-02-4174-729-2
- Pages: 96
- Published: 2025-04-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

My delight in playing turned to a lust for playing, my lust for playing into a compulsion to play, a mania, a frenetic fury that filled not only my waking hours but also came to invade my sleep. I could think of nothing but chess, I thought only in chess moves and chess problems . . . As a chess obsessive, what if you have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play the world champion, but it might send you to the edge of madness . . . and tip you over?