Chess match, Leningrad, 1924. Played between two Russian chess masters calling in their moves by telephone. pic.twitter.com/CygVWZZ4NB
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Leningrad, 1924.
The classic bishop-to-gulag opening.
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Lenin died in 1925 and after that Stalin checkmated the lot.