When his minder doesn’t pay attention he steals a book from a coat hanging next to him. He has to spend a rather long time in a hallway – another trick of the nazis to drive him insane. After some time in solitude his resistance begins to crumble and he almost tells the nazis everything the want to know. Being valuable for them he is not put in a concentration camp but kept isolated in a hotel room. When trying to convince him to play the man, Dr. This man manages to end the game with a remis.ĭeeply impressed the other men want him to play again as he is the only one who might have a chance to beat the champion. He explains how this move would affect the whole game. Just when they are about to make a fatal mistake a man steps in and stops them. Of course they have absolutely no chance against such a strong opponent. Together with a few other men he tries to beat him in a game of chess. The current world champion of chess also happens to be on this very boat. Stefan Zweig tells the story of a man who is on a boat. It was published in 1942 after the author’s suicide. The novella I’m about to review today is “The Royal Game” written by Stefan Zweig.
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