On a cruiseship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He accepts with a sneer. He will beat anyone, he says. But only if the stakes are high. Soon, the chess board is surrounded. At first, the challenger crumbles before the mind of the master. But then, a soft-spoken voice from the crowd begins to whisper nervous suggestions. Perfect moves, brilliant predictions. The speaker has not played a game for more than twenty years, he says. He is wholly unknown. But somehow, he is also entirely formidable…
Or so it says here
... to do with chess Index
2 comments:
This showed up on the radio not so long ago, and actually wasn't too bad: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wh531.
(But I assume you know that, per the second post at http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2478).
I prefer this version myself:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Schachnovelle-S-Zweig/dp/3596215226/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_5
Although the book is generally considered a classic, it's not realistic. Without giving too much away, a non-expert becomes a brilliant player, albeit with psychological problems, by reading a collection of unannotated games from a famous tournament hundreds of times.
I still enjoyed it though!
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