chess

Author's name: Stefan Zweig

Passengers on a cruise from New York to Buenos Aires find the world chess champion with them on board. They challenge him to defeat him, but the arrogant and unfriendly world champion easily defeats them. A mysterious passenger offers advice, and their fortunes change... How did this unknown person acquire his extraordinary understanding of the game? And at what cost? A deeply moving and fascinating work. The novella "Chess" offers an examination of the power of the mind and the evil it is capable of. It is the most important and beautiful achievement of the Austrian author Stefan Zweig, who completed it in his Brazilian exile and sent it to his publisher just days before his suicide in 1942. The story was a huge success, and it was repeatedly printed and translated, becoming the author's most famous work of all time. "Chess" has been translated into Arabic several times, and most, if not all, of the translations available in libraries were originally from other languages, with all the problems that translation through an intermediary language entails, starting with the misspelling of names and continuing with the repetition of the errors and misinterpretations of the intermediary translation. Therefore, we are pleased to present it today in a wonderful and faithful translation, directly from German, by the distinguished translator Samir Gerges.