4.5

I loved this! I became completely spellbound and finished it in one sitting. So many interesting existential concepts within such a short story, with the absurdity and genius of chess at its focal point. Will definitely read again (and maybe bump it up to 5 stars)!

«I have always been interested in any kind of monomaniac obsessed by a single idea, for the more a man restricted himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity; characters like this, apparently remote from reality, are like termites using their own material to build a remarkable and unique small-scale version of the world.»