Red Pawns, Red Soldiers: How the Bolsheviks built a chess superpower

In his latest Grandmaster View column, India’s young GM Aarav Dengla looks backmost astatine however the Bolsheviks transformed chess from a pastime of Russia’s aristocracy into an instrumentality of wide education, subject grooming and taste revolution. From Ilyin-Zhenevsky and the Red Army to Botvinnik, Tal, Karpov and Kasparov, Aarav traces however a century-old state-backed experimentation helped physique the Soviet chess machine, and a bequest that inactive shapes the chess satellite today.