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The Royal Game (Schachnovelle)
Novella by Stefan Zweig, 1944
The psychological novella The Royal Game (1944; Schachnovelle, 1942) is of special importance within Stefan Zweig's oeuvre since it was his last work, written shortly before his suicide in 1942 and published posthumously in Buenos Aires in the same year.
The action takes place on an ocean liner bound for South America. The author-narrator, who functions as listener, commentator, and onlooker, is informed by Dr. B. that Mirko Czentovic, the chess world champion, is also onboard.
Die schachnovelle von stefan zweig suicide
Dr. B. is persuaded to play against the world champion. He wins the first game but gives up the second one, being unnerved by the cold and brutal strategy of his opponent.
Zweig described in this novella the quite different biographies of these two chess "monomaniacs." Dr.
B. is a highly intelligent cultured man, a humanist in love with literature and philosophy, with a strong imagination. He comes from a family that for generations represen