He’s crisscrossed America from coast to coast playing tournaments and is now off to Argentina for fresh triumphs. York to Buenos Aires as the reigning chess world champion, Mirko Czentovic. He agrees, but only on one condition - that. “That’s a rare bird you’ve got on board - that’s Czentovic.” I must have received this news with a rather blank look, for he went on to explain, “Mirko Czentovic, the world chess champion. Stefan Zweigs Schachnovelle, the last work of fiction he completed in his. On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. As I was standing a bit apart from this hubbub, talking on the promenade deck with an acquaintance of mine, two or three flashbulbs flared near us - apparently the press had been quickly interviewing and photographing some celebrity just before we sailed. Visitors from shore shoved confusedly to see their friends off, telegraph boys in cocked caps dashed through the lounges shouting names, trunks and flowers were carried past, and inquisitive children ran up and down the companionways, the orchestra playing imperturbably on deck all the while. An example is when the narrator passenger mentions that: Chess has the wonderful quality of not tiring the mind.
ON THE great passenger steamer, due to depart New York for Buenos Aires at midnight, there was the usual last-minute bustle and commotion. B, who has become obsessed with playing chess, as this had been his only way of preserving his sanity when he had been put in solitary confinement by the Nazis. While Zweig documented himself and knows exactly the world of chess and the outstanding players of those times, among which are: Alekhine, Capablanca, Tartakower, Lasker or Bogoljubov.
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