Chess Story. By Stefan Zweig, translated by Joel Roteberg.

The world chess champion, a man of low birth and somehow no imagination, is on a long voyage with you, and you finagle a game pitting him against a dozen random players, one of whom turns out to be an anonymous man of astounding chess abilities that were acquired through horrific circumstances.

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