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En mi defensa todavía no lo terminé por estar distraída con sterling point

The prose is also good and paints a clear image giving a distinct impression of the different characters and the situation

I suppose the book is all about what it takes to be great at a particular field and in particular what you have to sacrifice and the toll it takes on you in other fields to be the best in the world and it poses the question of if the price is worth it if you are either going to be consumed by madness or if you are exceptionally below average in all other aspects but the field you excel in

The Austrian won the first game against czentovic but then maddened by his opponent’s slow pace fell back into his chess mania, made a mistaken move from another board he was imagining and then recomposed himself when the mc reminded him of his past and forfeit the game

now he only wishes to play one game to see if he was playing real chess in his cell and not merely under delirium

The Austrian then described how once he was fed up with simply repeating the 150 games he already knew by memory he began playing himself in his mind separating himself into a black mind and a white mind and how he fell into a kind of mania that took a heavy toll on him until he was let go by the gestapo during a psychotic episode