Busy! - God knows, you can say that I have been very busy with chess. But this happened under very special, even completely unique circumstances. It was a rather complicated story, and it could at best be regarded as a small contribution to our lovely great time. If you are patient for half an hour... Zweig's masterpiece, which is much more than a chess novel. A psychogram of two opponents who could not be more different, and a haunting portrait of a prisoner in isolation for whom the royal game becomes the game of life. The exquisite edition pays tribute to the famous text; the necessary background is provided by Dietmar Wenzelburger's notes, epilogue and chronological table.