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Chess - Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell
Chess
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On a cruiseship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He accepts with a sneer. He will beat anyone, he says. But only if the stakes are high. Soon, the chess board is surrounded. At first, the challenger crumbles before the mind of the master.... show more
On a cruiseship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He accepts with a sneer. He will beat anyone, he says. But only if the stakes are high. Soon, the chess board is surrounded. At first, the challenger crumbles before the mind of the master. But then, a soft-spoken voice from the crowd begins to whisper nervous suggestions. There are perfect moves and brilliant predictions. The speaker has not played a game for more than twenty years, he says. He is wholly unknown. But somehow, he is also entirely formidable!
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780141023373 (0141023376)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 76
Edition language: English
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mybookjournal
mybookjournal rated it
5.0 Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
WOW! what a book this was! Absolutely brilliant! It Cannot be anything less than 5 stars for sure. Chess is always been an intriguing game but only if you have good company to play with otherwise it can be very boring. But this book was just mind-blowing and you really don't have to know chess to re...
mehmetbaran140193
mehmetbaran140193 rated it
4.0 Satranç
Gerek akıcılığı, gerek yaratıcılığı noktalarında en başarılı uzun öykülerden birisidir bence. Ancak satranç bilmeyen birisi biraz yorucu bulabilir.
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
4.5 Chess Story
bookshelves: published-1942, winter-20102011, translation, play-dramatisation, wwii Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from December 18 to 20, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** The Viennese writer Stefan Zweig, most famous for Beware of Pity, wrote the original Schachnovelle or Chess Novel in 1942. ...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it
A quick read and one that is riveting from the get-go. Zweig can certainly relate a good story. His tone, always for me, is one as if a very close and trusted friend is sitting in a chair in front of me and letting me into something important I may not have known or heard of lately. Quite a talent. ...
Nostalgia's for Geeks
Nostalgia's for Geeks rated it
4.0
4.5 stars. I really enjoyed this!
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