![]() ![]() ![]() There are walls of text, though mind you, this is a small digest size novella, that reoccur throughout. If I were to nitpick, I could say that stylistically it does have very weird paragraph structuring that took me a bit to get into. Yet in another way, when you consider how integral the story of each character makes, and how much that aspect of the plotting shapes the outcomes, it seems more like a perfectly balanced equation. ![]() Perhaps it’s the most character driven story I’ve read, with a simple plot. Both players are given context in the form of pivotal life events which inform their play so much so that when they play, the reader sees the communication taking place so much so that the game becomes a medium for every fundamental component of the players to clash. While the premise is simple, the execution is absolutely masterful and riveting. But from the initial competition comes a surprise contender who has not played chess for decades, yet is seemingly an equal partner in play. On a journey across the sea, numerous passengers petition a champion chess player for a game. ![]()
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