A Chess Story Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2001) 50 Tables will no doubt

50 Tables will no doubt expand your universe

Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal

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A Chess Story Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2001) 50 Tables will no doubtAn epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig. Chess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. Dull witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game, before beating each of them and taking their money. But there is another passenger