Chess is all about slaying the royal family and attendants. Definitely in the Soviet wheelhouse.
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It's a highly aristocratic game. The poor pikemen are overpowered by mounted cavaliers & clergy.
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But the point of the game is to kill/check the King.
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Funny, and true. Disciplines like math, physics, and, yes, chess carried such prestige in Russia that, though practitioners had to be good communists, there was little effort to corrupt the discipline itself. The Soviets knew that “proletarian physics” wouldn’t win a Nobel.
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