Alphabetarion # Chess | Stefan Zweig, 1941

 
Yvan Attal, Chess Playing, 1928

“In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, 

- for someone to play against himself is absurd ...
It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.”

Stefan Zweig, The Royal Game, 1941 

Also:

The Book and the Movie: The Royal Game / Schachnovelle | Stefan Zweig /

 Brainwashed, 1960 d. Gerd Oswald

Writers playing Chess | Helen Keller / Hans Fallada / Ingeborg Bachmann /

 Fernando Pessoa / Vladimir Nabokov / Neal Cassady