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Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw
1998 novel by Thomas Glavinic
Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw (German: Carl Haffners Liebe zum Unentschieden) is a 1998 chess novel by Austrian writer Thomas Glavinic. It was Glavinic's first novel[1] and is about a shy and withdrawn Viennese chess master who in 1910 challenges the World Champion for his title.[2] The book was translated into English in 1999 by John Brownjohn for London-based publisher Harvill Press.[3]