The release date for the English version of 'Chess Story' by
Stefan Zweig is Dec 2005. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Just a few days before he committed himself in 1942, the Austrian master Stefan Zweig finished his last work, Chess Story, often referred to as The Royal Game, while living in exile in Brazil and submitted it to an American publisher. Zweig examines Nazism in this one narrative alone, and he does it with his trademark psychological focus.
When a ship departs New York for Buenos Aires, passengers discover that the world chess champion—a haughty and unwelcoming man—is traveling with them. When they get together to test their mettle against him, they are decisively outmatched. Their luck changes as an enigmatic traveler approaches to offer advice. The central theme of Zweig's narrative is how and at what cost he acquired his remarkable chess skills.
Chess Story's unique blend of intense tension and moving contemplation is highlighted in this new translation.