It was filmed in 1960 by director Gerd Oswald with Curd Jürgens and Mario Adorf in the starring roles. The first edition was released in the same year and the book became one of Zweig’s most popular works. Stefan Zweig completed the work shortly before his death on 23 February 1942. Ultimately he declares that he will never play chess again – the resigned capitulation of a broken human being who has succumbed to a soulless adversary. Incessantly anticipating new moves in his mind, Dr. The match against Czentovic opens up the old wounds of his former “chess intoxication”. He was held for months by the Gestapo for interrogation, and only survived the ordeal of detention by surreptitiously pilfering a chess handbook whose matches he re-enacted in his mind with increasing pathological fervour. B.’s knowledge of chess is based on his own oppressive experiences. battles against the world champion in chess, Mirko Czentovic, who plays with an almost machine-like automatism. The plot of The Royal Game revolves around a chess match on board a ship between two bitter rivals.
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