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Who doesn't know Sesame Street, the American educational children's television series that premiered in 1969 and runs on animation and puppetry. It is one of the longest-running shows in history. And it has been adapted for dozens of other countries. In a must-read new book Natasha Lane Rogoff describes the harrowing conversion to Ulitsa Sezam for Russia and Ukraine. And yes, there is a chess connection.
Tykhon Cherniaiev is a Ukrainian Candidate Master, a double world U10 chess champion in Rapid and Blitz. The young talent (Elo 2209) turned 12 on first of March, during the war in Ukraine. The family fled the country and is safe in Hamburg, Germany. Would you like to meet the lad, play against him? Well, then join our stream this evening at 4:30 p.m. European time. There will also be a number of young super-talents present.