Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Un amateur desafía al campeón del mundo en ajedrez y podrá ganar solamente si puede vencer sus propios demonios del holocausto. Novela de ajedrez de Stefan Zweig. Bienvenidos a otro episodio de Bibliotequeando, les habla su anfitrión Ricardo Lugo, arroba Bibliotequeando en las redes.
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Así que sigamos promoviendo la cultura de la lectura y el aprendizaje con los libros. Pero empecemos con el resumen del libro, que es un drama. during the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany. And chess is used as a metaphor to maintain the logic of not losing yourself mentally in a moment of crisis.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of 'Novela de Ajedrez' in the context of Stefan Zweig's life?
Because he said, if you are pacifist in Hitler's time, you are pro-Hitler. Which seems like a lie, but that's what most people thought, or many people at that time. And our author, Stefan Zweig, was one of those people in the First World War. I repeat, not in the second. He came to say that I feel immune to the sudden patriotic intoxication.
He did not see himself involved in the nationalist fervor. He did not see himself involved in reading those articles in favor of the war. People were asking to suspend friendships with enemies. If you have someone from the enemy country, do not talk to that person anymore. He said, I'm not going to do that. Now, as we are going to see a lot in his life,
Many of the ideological decisions he makes seem to have personal reasons too. What many people argue nowadays is that his turn towards pacifism is because he was a little desperate economically. Despite having a lot of money, I repeat, this libertinage depends a lot on his work as a writer. If he is not successful as a writer, he had to return to the family business.
And the archive where he worked, due to the military situation, was under control. The young people of the archive had to go to war. More workers around him were called to the front. He had to work more and more. He was basically afraid of being financially exposed. And that's why many people think he didn't want war.
But in the end, he can maintain his independence and continues to live about 10, 15, 20 years in this way. And suddenly Hitler comes to power and everything changes. And it is the second encounter in which war takes away from him that freedom. Zweig, for being Jewish, his books were denounced, forbidden. He is Austrian. Hitler, of course, also Austrian.
And the National Socialists, their party had a lot of power in Austria, began to make that campaign to unite Germany within this empire. Political disturbances begin. Eventually, Hitler's police arrive and knock on Zweig's door. They register him looking for weapons. He didn't have weapons, but of course they're sending a message.
And Zweig, that same day, as soon as the police left, packed his bags and went to London. And he never lived in Austria again. As is usual with Swipe, the reason why he leaves is not always ideological, which of course he was against, but it was the desire to escape from his marriage.
Swipe was already married at this point in his life, but he was not happy, he was very in love with his own independence. He treated his wife like a secretary, he didn't like her daughters, he hated them, according to reports. He said he was not constitutionally fit for marital life. In fact, he threatened his wife once to commit suicide if she got pregnant.
So he decides to go to London, partly for Hitler, partly for personal reasons. And he starts an adventure with a secretary, his new secretary. Technically, he's still married, so he's a lover. and gets married again and has a second wife. Now he didn't like London, he never felt at ease.
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Chapter 3: How does chess serve as a metaphor in Zweig's narrative?
For the anger or the anger of the upper class, who considered chess as a game of the upper class, This is a man of the lower class, a poor man, and he decides, I'm going to take this gift that I have, the only good thing that I know how to do in life, and I'm going to make the most amount of money possible.
So he becomes a very egocentric person, he only played if they paid him, don't talk to me, that I'm better than you, that kind of personality, in part because he knew he wasn't very intelligent in other things, he knew that if he talked, they would realize his weaknesses in other areas. So our narrator finds out that that Centovich, that man is the one who is sitting on the boat.
But he won't be able to talk to him because, as we mentioned, Centovich is very closed. He doesn't like to be talking to others, especially if the other people are cults, are of this class. He feels that he won't be able to connect very well with them. Therefore, for the narrator, it is impossible to approach Centovich. But... se le ocurre una idea.
Y su idea es qué mejor manera de atraer la atención del campeón del mundo de ajedrez que empezar a jugar ajedrez yo mismo. Quizás si yo me pongo a jugar aquí en el barco, el campeón algún día me vea y empiece a hablar conmigo. Porque el narrador está muy intrigado en el concepto de entender el mundo a través de una sola cosa.
He found it interesting that if you can be an expert at that level of a single thing, you can create the whole world with all its complexities, reduce it to a very small scale to understand it that way. So he wanted to enter his mind that way. And in this, the narrator meets McConner. He needed to play chess with someone, of course.
He meets another man, an American, extremely competitive, extremely egocentric too. And they start playing with the hope that Centovich will one day appear and see them. And eventually this happens. But as I mentioned, Centovich charges money to be able to play. His agents had told him that he was forbidden to play without at least charging $250 per game, which today equals about $5,000.
McConner, who had money, and at the same time egocentric enough to think that, well, maybe I can beat the world champion in chess. He says yes, don't worry, this is an opportunity in life, ready, 5,000 dollars.
Centovich says, well, since there is not enough chess tables, there is only one, I leave you two and the others, because people start to arrive interested in the game, other amateurs who know how to play chess. Centovich says, play all against me. In other words,
Yo muevo una pieza, me voy para la otra esquina del cuarto, ustedes deciden, discutan cuál es la jugada que quieren hacer, ustedes la mueven y me avisan y yo me regreso al tablero y jugamos y así vamos.
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Chapter 4: What personal experiences influenced Zweig's writing style and themes?
It seemed that he had no interest in the game and in a few moves he beat the amateurs declaring hakemate. Everyone was impressed with the mental ability for this man to play chess. Everyone was focused on each move and this guy seemed that in half a second he was already 7, 8, 10 moves more advanced.
McConner, being egocentric, wants a rematch, he wants to spend $5,000 more, and Centovich, who wants to make money, says, yes, of course, let's play again. This time the Amateurs focus a little more and reach move 37, which is quite advanced in a game, especially against the world champion. And they have an advantage, the Amateurs seem to have an advantage.
Their pawn is about to reach the end of the board, which for those who play chess knows that you can recover your queen. They are about to make that move, McConner grabs the piece and suddenly someone arrives, an amateur who was not part of the group, a new man who disappears out of nowhere, grabs her arm and says, don't do that.
that if you return your queen at this moment he is going to take it immediately with the sharp in c1 you are going to respond with the horse but while you do that he is going to move the pawn to d7 putting your tower in danger even if you hack with the horse that what you think you are going to be able to do he is going to be able to win with his tower within 9 or 10 movements in this piece
Everyone is impressed with this amateur, as if no one understands how this man knows so much. Centovic does not know what is happening, that's why we remember that Centovic is in his corner. He does not know, he cannot hear what the amateurs are discussing before playing. So they listen to this new man, this new mysterious man. Centovic returns to the board and for the first time he has to stop.
He was about to play automatically and suddenly he realizes that someone played intelligently. And before playing, he stops and looks at the others, looking to see who that new person is, that new opponent, who for the first time, maybe in a long time, is at his level mentally. So Centovic and this new character, this new man, start playing and eventually the game is tied.
Centovic realizes that this is the real opponent and challenges him to a third match. This new character is called Dr. B. That is the new man, who apparently is also an expert in chess. But this Dr. B says, no, no, no, I don't know how to play chess. I have more than 20 years without playing. I used to play at school like all children, but sometimes I won, sometimes I lost.
In conclusion, he doesn't feel comfortable playing against the world champion again. He thinks it's going to be ridiculous, that maybe he had a bit of luck. As we mentioned, there is no luck in chess.
So eventually people are putting pressure on him that they want to see him play against Centuvich to see what happens and here when we find out that this new character, this man who is called Dr. B with a donkey B has a very interesting story of how he learned chess. It turns out that Dr. B. legally advised the great monasteries to administer their goods.
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Chapter 5: How did historical events shape Stefan Zweig's literary career?
No one is smart enough to know what's going on. You can see the chessboard, but to understand the little details, all the possibilities, all the plays that these two geniuses can do, it was very difficult. Therefore, everyone is guided by body language. Doctor B is sitting, relaxed, almost bored, natural, moving his pieces quickly. He thought for a few seconds and moved. Centovich is trying.
His whole body is leaning on the table. It takes a long time to play, sometimes minutes. Dr. B gets bored. He asks for water. He feels a little impatient. They've been playing for three hours. They go for move 42. and suddenly Dr. B sees a Centovich move and almost laughs and says, done, I did it. And no one knows what happened, not even Centovich himself understands.
Dr. B plays a game, the game continues, Centovich is thinking, Dr. B gets bored, he has to stop and starts walking forward and back, forward and back, but they are very short spaces. The room was much bigger, but it gave short steps. The narrator realizes that probably those were the dimensions of his room in the hotel captured by the Nazis.
After a minute, Centovich realizes what Dr. B was saying. It took him some time to realize what Dr. B had already seen for a few seconds. And to avoid the humiliation of losing against an amateur, he simply says, I retire, which is a way to avoid being hacked. So the world champion in chess is defeated by an amateur who just a few weeks ago was being captured and mentally tortured by the Nazis.
But Centovic, as we mentioned, is very competitive. He's not going to leave him like that. And he says to Dr. B, do you want another game? And Dr. B, who feels confident, accepts it. The narrator warns him, don't do it, please don't play, we had already talked about it, it's only a game, but Dr. B doesn't listen to him. And here we see a bit of Centovic's piquancy.
I'm not going to call it evil, because he doesn't know the story. of Dr. B, but he did realize obviously in the first game that Dr. B is very impatient. So in this second game he starts to play with time. The simplest move, the first move of the game took four minutes to do, just for Dr. B to feel the impatience, that impatience is not impatience, it is the madness that is returning him.
We start to see how he starts to drink a lot more water, because he was very thirsty in the hotel because they didn't give him water. We start to see how he starts to walk again, forward and backward, forward and backward, as if his mind was being transported again to another place. Little by little his behavior gets more and more bizarre, more strange.
He starts talking to himself, it turns out that in boredom he decides to play chess games against himself. He falls back into that vicious circle of the white brain, black brain, and playing, speaking out loud, we do not realize that he fell back into madness. And in move 19 the crisis hit him completely. He yelled out of nowhere, hack and kill, when there was no hack and kill. Therefore,
He loses the match, Dr. B realizes, he looks at the board and starts screaming like, it's going, it's going, because your king should be in F7 and the pawn is in G5, not in G4, and so on. Obviously, he shouted hakemate because there was another game in his mind, that he managed to make hakemate to another part of his brain.
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