It seems that every time a literary or cinematic work tries to depict a chess game, it always creates this fierce game where victory, loss, and aptness are outlined, but what makes Chess Story different is the new perspective Zweig uses to look at chess. It isn’t about big confrontations between good and evil or life or death. In chess story, the characters don’t play for their lives—the way Charles Xavier and Eric Lensherr do in X-men— but they contest because that is all they ever knew and ever will know.
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