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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A Soviet-era 82mm mortar launcher
This afternoon.
Via RTÉ:
The discovery was made after a courier was stopped after he arrived into Dublin Port at around 2am. When the car was checked an 82mm mortar launcher was found in the back.
The Bomb Disposal Team confirmed the weapon was an old Soviet mortar. The area was declared safe at around 5.30am and gardaí have since removed the mortar for technical examination. The driver told gardaí she was delivering the mortar to a collector in Northern Ireland.
Breaking Woman arrested after mortar launcher found at Dublin Port (RTÉ)
For the month that’s in it.
The European Championships, Wednesday, June 15, 1988.
The Niedersachsenstation, Hanover, West Germany.
Jackie’s Army travelled north to face Dynamo Kiev the Soviet Union achieving a stunning, unexpected and comprehensive 1-1 draw.
Kevin Myers, in the Irish Times, ruminated:
If there had been a little more justice in the world and a little less discreet burning of votive candles in the Kremlin, Ireland would have bagged three goals and we would be booking our hotels in Munich.
This Irish side showed itself to be one of great class, sophistication and courage. The days of eye-rubbing disbelief, suggestion that we had all been smoking illicit vegetables and were having the most preposterous hallucination should now be dispelled forever.
Vegetables?
You’re doing it wrong.
Pic via Joe.ie