BOLSHEVIK CHESS
WORKMEN FOR KINGS. LONDON, Dec. 8. The Soviet authorities designed what they call “revolutionary chessmen,” which Leningrad is manufacturing in mass quantities in connection with the international chess tournament held at Moscow, slays the Riga correspondent of “The Times.’' The king is represented by a workman, the queen by a peasant woman, and the pawns by “Pionerki,” namely, members of the children’s Bolshevik organisation.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 22 December 1925, Page 15
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66BOLSHEVIK CHESS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 22 December 1925, Page 15
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