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When Mirko Czentovic became an orphan at the age of twelve, he came under the protection of a benevolent priest. This child, whose intelligence is doubted and ignored, turns out to be a chess genius by chance.

And years later, Mirko appears before us as the world chess champion.

New York' On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires; A rich man offers Mirko Czentovic to play a hand of chess for a fee. Mirko's invincibility, as he fights first against the rich man and then against the ship's inhabitants who participate as both spectators and players, Dr. It is shaken thanks to B.

Dr. When B. joins those who cannot stand watching the match and play, an offer is made for him to face the champion. However, Dr. B. has recovered from a symptom called “chess poisoning” and has been banned from playing chess.

Dr., an Austrian immigrant. B. returns to the days when he was captured by the Gestapo. He was held captive in a small room for days, weeks and months. He learned all the intricacies of this game thanks to a small chess book he found by chance one day when he was taken for interrogation. There is no chess board or pieces in front of him. At first, he plays the game completely fictionally in his mind, then with the pieces of bread he paints and the squares he creates on his bed sheet. His personality became two opposite colors, just like chess, and he began to experience a split personality. After he was released and treated, he never played chess again

Until that day.

This "short novel" written by Stefan Zweig with a magnificent fiction. or you will read the “long story” in one breath.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

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Dough Type: 2. Dough

First Printing Year: 2013

Number of Prints: 4. Printing

Number of Pages: 104

Size: 13.5 x 19.5

< strong>Language : Turkish

Media Type : Paperback