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The impossible happens, and world chess champion Mirko Czentovic is defeated by a stranger who hasn’t touched a chessboard in twenty-five years. This man, whose identity is unknown, defeats the world’s strongest chess player by a wide margin.
Great astonishment ensues when Dr. B., an Austrian immigrant, finds himself facing off against the chess champion entirely by chance aboard a passenger ship sailing from New York to Buenos Aires. The stranger, who defeats his experienced opponent with great ease, reopens a psychological wound that will once again threaten his mental state by recounting, before the game, his painful memories from the time he was imprisoned by the National Socialists.