By Stefan Zweig
On a cruiseship sure for Buenos Aires, a prosperous passenger demanding situations the realm chess champion to a fit. He accepts with a sneer. he'll beat somebody, he says. yet provided that the stakes are excessive. quickly, the chess board is surrounded. firstly, the challenger crumbles earlier than the brain of the grasp. yet then, a soft-spoken voice from the group starts to whisper anxious feedback. There are ideal strikes and terrific predictions. The speaker has now not performed a online game for greater than 20 years, he says. he's totally unknown. yet by some means, he's additionally solely bold!
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If I denied too much, I was doing myself no good. ‘But the interrogation wasn’t the worst of it. The worst was coming back to my void after the questioning, back to the same room with the same table, the same bed, the same washbasin, the same wallpaper. For as soon as I was alone with myself I tried reconstructing what I ought to have said in reply, and what I must say next time to divert any suspicion that some unconsidered remark of mine might have aroused. I thought it all over, I went back over everything, examined my own statements, checked every word of what I had said to the chief interrogator, I recapitulated every question they had asked, every answer I had given, I tried to think what they might have put down in the written record, but I realized I could never work it out, I would never know.
As far as I’m concerned, the more clear-cut a deal is the better. I’d rather pay cash than have a man like Mr Czentovic do me a favour and find myself obliged to thank him in the end. And after all, I’ve lost over two hundred and fifty dollars in an evening at our club before, and without playing a champion. ’ I was amused to see how deeply I had wounded McConnor’s amour propre with my innocent remark about ‘third-rate’ players. But since he was minded to pay for this expensive bit of fun, I had no objection to his misplaced ambition, which would finally get me acquainted with that oddity Czentovic.
Instinctively, we followed the direction of his eyes, and looked at the stranger in suspense. However, before he could think about it, let alone answer, McConnor in his ambitious excitement was triumphantly calling out to him, ‘Of course! But now you must play against him on your own! ’ Here, however, something unforeseen happened. The stranger, who curiously enough was still staring hard at the now empty chessboard, started when he felt that all eyes were turned on him and heard us appealing to him so enthusiastically.