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As someone who has been reading books for as long as I can remember, I was feeling the loss of not having read this masterpiece until now. I've been wondering about it for a long time, but because it reminded me of a friend I lost recently and called it the book of my life, I didn't feel ready and kept postponing it. Stefan Zweig is an author whose writing I admire very much. I loved the book Acimak, just like this one.
Dr., who lived during the Nazi period and was imprisoned with various tortures to get information from him, learned to play chess with a chess book he stole from his torturer's pocket. (As a licensed chess player who has been playing chess since the 5th grade of primary school, participating in competitions, it felt like an insult to learn chess by reading a book :)) Dr., who played chess with the world chess champion on a ship from New York to Buenos Aires. B's experiences really excite me while reading. Zweig, who lived during the Hitler era and was greatly influenced by this, describes how Nazi tortures dull a person's senses and liberates his hero a little with chess. Because chess is not a game, it is a lifestyle where strategies are made and you can think and see one step ahead. It's definitely a masterpiece and I recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet...
