"Chess Novella," the literary legacy of Stefan Zweig, a masterful novella that wants to be in every personal library. Nine Souls is being released in advance at a special price: "Chess Novella" + a surprise from the Petit series (of our choice) for only 50 NIS. He had no intellectual or physical abilities, only chess. Mirko Centovic was revealed to be a prodigy as a child, and quickly rose to the status of world champion. On a steamship sailing from New York to Buenos Aires, like the ship on which Zweig sailed to Brazil in the last year of his life, he met an unknown opponent. His name was Dr. B., a mysterious Viennese, who had also fled his homeland. "Chess Novella" illustrates what happens to people subjected to superhuman pressure. It is a duel between two players, but also a total clash between people of opposite natures. "Chess Novel" is the last of Stefan Zweig's novellas, and according to many, his best. It was written in the last months of his life, and was published in an edition of 300 copies by a German exile publisher in Argentina, a few months after Zweig's suicide in 1942. Here, Zweig confronts Nazism for the only time, the decline of Europe, which was his home, and the experience of forced emigration. As usual, he examines questions of genius and madness, of mania and obsession. And chess itself, that abstract and wonderful game, a fertile ground for genius, serves here for the heroes both as redemption and destruction. The game of chess is the material from which a story of great horror and talent is woven.