Chess Story

I detect strong parallels between reading a novel and the game of chess: there is the author sitting on one side, playing white, the reader on the other side, playing black; instead of the chess board and chess pieces there is the novel; the author’s opening chapter is the chess player’s opening, th......more

Check Mate! Mirko Czentovic is the uncontested worldwide champion of Chess. His story fantastic, as a near brainless savant who stormed the game by surprise, beating every chess grand-master out there, and rising to glory from nowhere. Traveling on a boat to Buenos Aires for his next challenge, he......more

shameful confession time: i don't know how to play chess. but i do know how to read. and that, in this case, has to count for something. this is incisive and effective in both of its purposes: as a book, and as a goodbye. stefan zweig's finale is a searing condemnation of fascism that uses its few page......more

- هل هي رواية ام تلخيص للحياة؟ - لنبدا من سطح النهر، قصة عن ثلاثة اشخاص، اولهم بطل شطرنج، ثانيهم محب للأشياء الغريبة المثيرة وثالثهم "إله شطرنج" ولكن بالصدفة!!.. يجتمع الثلاثة على متن سفينة تحتاج 12 يوماً لتصل الى وجهتها وتجري القصة واللعبة بينهم مع سرد لطيف لخلفياتهم وكيفية اتقانهم للعبة... - هيا لنغ......more

Human mind… Its full abilities still remain unknown… In his profoundly psychological Chess Story Stefan Zweig explores some capabilities of human mind… All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the clo......more