Title: Schachnovelle

Title: Schachnovelle Title Record # 2655684
Author: Stefan Zweig
Date: 1942-12-07
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: novella
Webpages: Wikipedia-DE, Wikipedia-EN
Language: German

Note: SFE previously referred to the events of this novella as being "a Chess match between the Robot world champion and a cosmopolitan", changed to "the idiot-savant world champion". (The person in question, Czentovic, is "the son of a poor South Slavonian boatman", not a robot.) Contains no genre elements or context, although it was included in a Romanian sf magazine.

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Translations

Translated Serializations

Year	Language	Title
1991	English	The Royal Game
2006^ⓘTranslated by Anthea Bell, first appearance of this translation was 2006.	English	Chess

Year	Language	Title
1957^ⓘTranslated by J. Popper	Romanian	Jucătorul de șah (part 1 of 2)^?Jucatorul de sah (part 1 of 2)
1957^ⓘTranslated by J. Popper	Romanian	Jucătorul de șah (part 2 of 2)^?Jucatorul de sah (part 2 of 2)

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Colecția "Povestiri științifico-fantastice", #47^?Colectia "Povestiri stiintifico-fantastice", #47	1957-07-01	ed. Adrian Rogoz	Știință & Tehnică^?Shtiintsa & Tehnicah		Lei 1^?Lei: Romanian leu	32	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag
Colecția "Povestiri științifico-fantastice", #48^?Colectia "Povestiri stiintifico-fantastice", #48	1957-07-10	ed. Adrian Rogoz	Știință & Tehnică^?Shtiintsa & Tehnicah		Lei 1^?Lei: Romanian leu	32	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag
Sinister Gambits: Chess Stories of Murder and Mystery	1991-09-26	ed. Richard Peyton	Souvenir Press	0-285-63052-0	£14.99^?£: UK pound	318	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Chess	2006-01-26	Stefan Zweig	Penguin Books	978-0-14-196506-2			ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	chap
Chess	2017-06-01	Stefan Zweig	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)	978-0-241-30516-4	£4.99^?£: UK pound	83	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	chap	Hugo Koeke
Chess	date unknown	Stefan Zweig	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)	978-0-241-30516-4	£4.99^?£: UK pound	83	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	chap	Hugo Koeke

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