http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Game The story of Yuri Nosenko looks very similar to the main protagonist of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Game The story of Yuri Nosenko looks very similar to the main protagonist of Zweig's last book, written in 1942. A must read about solitary confinement, about chess, about the Nazis, about a lot of things actually.