Russian chess suffers as war divides two great powers of the game

It doesn’t even rate as a footnote as the bombs fall and families cower in bomb shelters, but there is something inexpressibly sad about seeing two of the world’s great chess-loving nations at war.

Ukrainians chess stars were an integral part of the great Soviet chess dynasty, and to this ...

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