Talk:The Royal Game

assistance welcomed

I would welcome any assistance in tidying/improving this article as I am very new to this world. The title would also benefit from its original title which may or may not be Schachnovelle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Calexico (talk • contribs) 20:08, 21 April 2004 (UTC)

Zweig's "Schachnovelle" ("Chess Novella") was first published by "Pigmalion" of Buenos Aires in December of 1942 (Zweig had killed himself in February of that year) in a limited edition of 250 copies. In 1943 "Fischer-Berman" of Stockholm published the first mass edition. In 1944 an English translation was published in New York ("Viking") and London ("Cassell and Company"). Both English editions also contained the novellas "Amok" ("Der Amokläufer") and "Letter from an Unknown Woman" ("Brief einer Unbekannten"), both from the collection "Amok. Novellen einer Leidenschaft" (Leipzig: Insel, 1922).Ver sacrum (talk) 05:02, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Prodigy

'prodigy' needs to be disambiguated to either Child prodigy or Chess prodigy. --Cfailde 21:06, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)

 Done changed today, going with Chess prodigy, by Cagliost in this edit. Seems reasonable to me. Neither is perfect, as both targets say it is a child, but I feel it's allowable in the circumstances, and the chess one seems much more appropriate. Cheers DBaK (talk) 18:49, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 08:02, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Geri's Game - is there a connection? Taking it out for now.

I'm concerned about this bit, or rather ex-bit, under Adaptations: This novella was the inspiration of the 1997 Pixar short film Geri's Game[citation needed]. It was I who fact-tagged it but actually I am taking it out now. Places on the web, it seems, that refer to this "connection" are mostly quoting, directly or indirectly, this article. In the meantime I can see no separate evidence for a real connection. In particular, neither IMDB nor the film's credits (it is very good by the way!) mention Zweig. The anonymous editor who added it two years ago didn't use edit summaries or Talk and didn't exactly hang around for a chat. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Royal_Game&diff=prev&oldid=91012881 ... So all we are left with is the fact that Geri's Game has a man playing chess against himself. That's indisputable, but it doesn't seem to me to constitute a reason for stating the "inspiration" as fact. If you know otherwise, please restore and cite away. I'd love to be convinced that this delightful film can be linked to Zweig's rather less jolly story! Best wishes, DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 16:40, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh yeah, and our own Geri's Game article doesn't even mention this - instead it has a story about its origins in the director's family. The two are not mutually exclusive of course, but you'd hope the Zweig connection might just surface there, and it does not. I think I'll shut up for a bit now. DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 16:44, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

"Geri's Game" is on Youtube here and here.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Cagliost (talk • contribs) 14:05, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

OK ... thank you Cagliost. This has been a stale issue for some time (like, 13+ years) so I am not sure why we are revisiting it now. Do you have something to add? I've seen Geri's Game, but I had seen it in 2008 too. Unless something has changed I don't see what else we can discuss – now, as then, I think I was correct to remove the uncited and perhaps improbable claim. With best wishes, DBaK (talk) 18:41, 25 April 2022 (UTC)