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At the giant chess board were famous players Ilya Rabinovich (black pieces) and Pyotr Romanovsky (white pieces) and each piece was represented by actual people: the Red Army soldiers were the...
30 cze 2007 · The first sporting event after World War II was the USA vs USSR radio chess match in September, 1945. The Russians won. One of the world's strongest chess players was a Latvian named Vladimir Petrov.
World War II and the Rise of Soviet Chess. Few events have impacted the chess world as dramatically as World War II. The years 1939 to 1945 witnessed a substantial decline in the number of important competitions, including the World Chess Championship and Chess Olympiad, both of which were suspended.
Let's time travel back to Leningrad (aka St. Petersburg) in 1924. That's when an unconventional chess match was played by Peter Romanovsky and Ilya Rabinovich, two chess masters of the day. Apparently, they called in their moves over the telephone.
10 mar 2017 · Soviet photojournalist Yevgeny Khaldei recorded amazing scenes in the devastating war between Nazi Germany and the USSR.
Chess reached its peak during the Cold War - a time when it was crucial for the USSR to reign supreme in every contested field, especially the intellectual kind.
2 lut 2023 · The Soviet Union and Chess during the War. The Soviet Union had a strong tradition of chess and many of its top players were drafted into the Red Army during the war. Chess was seen as an important cultural asset of the Soviet Union, and the government actively supported the development of the game.
