![]() ![]() You can contribute through PayPal, Patreon, Venmo and Crypto. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your contributions will help us continue providing the best free cultural and educational materials to learners everywhere. If you would like to support the mission of Open Culture, consider making a donation to our site. If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newsletter, please find it here. They’re all on display above, or shown in a larger format here.Īccording to this online forum for chess enthusiasts, the 5-hour match “was an annual event, designed to promote chess in the USSR.” The first such match was held in Smolensk in 1921. Whether you are an aspiring chess World Champion or just an amateur player, youve probably dreamt of beating reigning Chess king Magnus Carlsen Nows your. Members of the Soviet Union’s Red Army served as the black pieces members of the Soviet navy were the white pieces. And then real-life chess pieces–in the form of human beings and horses–were moved across a huge chessboard covering Palace Square. ![]() That’s when an unconventional chess match was played by Peter Romanovsky and Ilya Rabinovich, two chess masters of the day.Īpparently, they called in their moves over the telephone. Let’s time travel back to Leningrad (aka St. Petersburg) in 1924.
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