La'ib al-Shitranj (Markaz)لاعب الشطرنج

Translated to Arabic, the novel 'Chess Story' (in the original German 'Schachnovelle'), by Austrian author Stefan Zweig, first published in 1941, just before the author's death by suicide. 'Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig's story.'