Chess history trivia
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Steel - as a tribute to Stalin?
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Nope.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:58 pmSocialist ones? Bad joke.
First actual guess: engineering workers?
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Hint: let's just say those workers were a necessity of the country and culture back then. The following year, 130,000 entered after which it went on to become an annual event.
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Vodka distillers, followed by sex workers.
No, seriously, generic groups like factory workers or agricultural workers seem the only ones large enough. I am going to go for "factory workers".
No, seriously, generic groups like factory workers or agricultural workers seem the only ones large enough. I am going to go for "factory workers".
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Farm workers on collective farms.
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D.J.Richards publication on Soviet Chess discusses it.
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A 50/50 chance and I blew it! (The fact I have that publication makes it a bit ...)
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Good book, very good at making you relieved you didn't grow up in the Soviet Union.
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Metalworkers?
(Guess based on one of those quotes you get from that annoying voice on Fritz.)
(Guess based on one of those quotes you get from that annoying voice on Fritz.)
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Answer posted above already.
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Oops, I thought that was another guess, not the answer.
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Who, in 1937, was told by a jolly Communist Propaganda Department official in Kiev that his failure to participate regularly at chess events might be held against him and interpreted in a way that could be dangerous?
And yes Soviet development appeared in print on our shores in more than one documented source (but can't say what just yet).
And yes Soviet development appeared in print on our shores in more than one documented source (but can't say what just yet).
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Bohatyrchuk seems a likely answer.MJMcCready wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:54 amWho, in 1937, was told by a jolly Communist Propaganda Department official in Kiev that his failure to participate regularly at chess events might be held against him and interpreted in a way that could be dangerous?