Amazingly end

In less than 100 pages, the author has managed to enshrine two stories in the news, that could dinitiation office chess. Zweig speaks very well, putting his storytelling talent in the history of service and skillfully playing the mystery of the two men, the champion "autistic" and the amateur prodigy. The narrator will strive to break their secret, with more success in the second, which will reveal the genesis of his singular gift. I can not judge the credibility of these characters, including Mon learned the rules of totally abstract way and ended up playing against himself in thought, gradually sliding into dementia. But one can easily assume quun such a man could have existed

Everything is really fascinating, and Zweig knows perfectly highlight metaphysics from this millennium play, paradoxes game following a "continuous development [while remaining] barren. ". A game that, by intervening in brain power and the power of abstraction, has enabled one of the protagonists of the book déchapper interrogation of the Nazis, while lamenant border of madness

Also this new paradoxical, both very involved but with more than disconcerting epilogue, brutal quune chess game where it is impossible for ordinary mortals to guess before the final blow which player assénera his opponent a "failed and Mat "dry and irrevocable. Was it voluntary on the part of the author? Quoiquil Regardless, I stayed a little on my hunger, mattendant perhaps a somewhat startling conclusion (just like in "The Confusion of feelings"), which mempêche to a higher rating.