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Few tournaments brought as much stake to its host nation as Moscow 1925 did to Russia. The event brought a Russian into world title contention, but, more importantly, it proved vital to Russia’s rise as dominant force in chess. Eugene Manlapao takes a look at the tournament and its history. | Photo: Tournament winner Efim Bogoljubov (left) and Akiba Rubinstein during their game | Photo: Wikipedia

What Russia Taught The World About Chess Written by Alexey Zakharov In the last hundred or so years, Russia became almost synonymous with chess. The country in its many incarnations—Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and now “just” Russia—produced more grandmasters and world champions than any other, and its players enriched the ancient game immensely.  So, let’s now delve (shallowly, and then, of course, more and more deeply) into what Russia and its predecessor states brought to the wor...

У Березані червоноармійці отримали наказ запалити селянські хати, створивши таким чином «димову завісу» для свого відступу