| May-13-14 | | Gottschalk: Jeschow sounds a lot like Yezhov.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola...
Can anyone confirm if this is the executor of Stalin,
even he end up being a victim? |
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| May-13-14 | | Granny O Doul: This is the game that accompanies Stalin's entry in Golombek's 1977 chess encyclopedia. Yes, the name appears as "Yezhov" there, and Golombek identifies him as head of the... (whatever KGB predecessor it was), but calls the game "almost certainly an invention". |
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| May-13-14 | | Strelets: I can tell you as someone who studies Soviet history that this game is very likely a fake. Briukhanov and Shoshkov, in «Opravdaniiu Ne Podlezhit: Ezhov i Ezhovshchina 1936g.-1938g.» (Saint Petersburg: OOO«Petrovskii Fond», 1998), p.26, have him as director of the instructors' division of the Party committee of Semipalatinsk oblast' for most of 1926. An obscure apparatchik in the Kazakh SSR would be a most unusual chess partner for the soon-to-be vozhd'. |
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May-13-14
 | | piltdown man: I think I'd let him win. |
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| May-13-14 | | Rookiepawn: NKVD, and formerly GPU.
Yagoda, Yezhov, Beria; all repellent people. Stalin needed people like that. The game was probably played by other players. |
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| May-13-14 | | Strelets: <Rookiepawn> Genrikh Iagoda and Nikolai Ezhov both went to death professing their unbroken loyalty to Stalin, the man who destroyed them. I've never heard of him as a chess player, but Simon Sebag Montefiore's "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar" says that he was an excellent pool player (p. 343). |
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| May-13-14 | | Strelets: P. 507, excuse me. |
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| May-13-14 | | Rookiepawn: <Strelets> I've studied Stalin's political role and life, though not through Mr. Montefiore's works. It is true both Yagoda and Yezhov were loyal to the man who destroyed them, moreover: Yagoda was Yezhov's mentor, and still tortured and killed by his former protegé. In turn Yezhov was killed by Beria. A crazy merry-go-round of twisted relationships. Thanks for the data, I find it most surprising: pool? You mean like snooker, billiard and the like? Where and when a full-time revolutionnary is supposed to find the moment to practise pool? A chessboard is easy to carry around, but a pool table presents some logistical issues. In fact Stalin never played a major role in the Russian Revolution, "writing a bunch of articles none read" (L.D. Bronstein - Trotsky) so probably while conspiring behind curtains to kill all the old guard members, he had a pool table there. I don't question someone can be intellectually limited as Stalin was, and at the same time good at chess (I guess Janowsky was an example, Fischer was no great brain apart from chess either); but seeing what a poor war strategist he was (Zukhov had to rip the war leadership from Stalin's useless hands) I have a hard time believing he could carry out any decent chess attack. |
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| May-13-14 | | Strelets: <Rookiepawn> He would have probably played a form of pool called Russian pyramid. It's played on a snooker table but with wider and heavier balls. Also unlike snooker, there are only two colors of ball: fifteen numbered white balls and a red cue ball. They play it in the television movie "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed," and, judging from the photo, so did Karpov: http://files.chesscomfiles.com/imag... |
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| May-13-14 | | Rookiepawn: Hey, amazing pic for my collection of curiosities. I take note of the movie too. Thx! |
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Sep-05-16
 | | perfidious: Stalin liquidated Yezhov here, same as in real life, ultimately rendering him a nonperson. |
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| Mar-10-20 | | MordimerChess: Most of interesting information about Stalin and chess can be found on Russian wiki. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A... If someone doesn't read Russian - google translate does quite good job with this article. There is also some information there that the variation of Sicilian Defense was analyzed and popularized in 1930, so it's nearly impossible that two amateurs played such quality opening 4 years before. And also suddenly Jezhov started to play bad moves and let Stalin win the game. But anyway, it's pretty nice attacking idea against Sicilian Defense so it's still worth to check it. I just created video commentary about this game:
https://youtu.be/YAQ_0IvjlNE
Enjoy short story and game analysis! |
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Mar-10-20
 | | Diademas: If someone played on for eight moves queen down against me, I would probably wanted them shot too. |
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| Jun-23-20 | | Chesgambit: 0-0?? Nfd7! |
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| Jun-25-21 | | ADIN: joseph stalin got his in the end for katyn massacre with beria and blokhin: katyn.encyclopediasupreme.org/katyn the truth is eternal, it is not new! |
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| Jun-25-21 | | ADIN: stalin got rid of yezhov (he even editted his "enemies" out from photos he was with them), as he wanted to get rid of beria, blame his crimes on scapegoats! |
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| Sep-26-21 | | WNRRRWN: khrushchev was given monument by ussr government? it is half white half black: meaning he is half good, half bad as chinese think mao is 2/3 good 1/3 bad... but he started process of destalinization and good riddance to uncle joseph stalin who was poisoned by beria or whoever with rat poison, katyn associated march 5 1940 - march 5 1953:
http://archive.md/MFJNw |
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| Sep-26-21 | | WNRRRWN: ironically, stalin was reburied iin simple grave in darkness without any fanfare or ceremony on the eve of all saints feast he banned, halloween 1961!!! |
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| Sep-26-21 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: Two criminals played a game of chess against each other, nothing more. It is NOT important, if this game is good, mediocre, or bad. Let us simply remember their MILLIONS of victims in the East European countries and Russia. As a German citizen, I would write exactly the same about Hitler, Himmler, or Heydrich. |
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Sep-26-21
| | perfidious: < Diademas: If someone played on for eight moves queen down against me, I would probably wanted them shot too.> lmao |
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| Nov-28-21 | | THEADINTHE: aha, YUP, COMRADE JOE STALIN WAS POISONED, ASSASSINATED WITH RAT POISON, WARFARIN, RAT FITTING RAT, ON KATYN'S 13TH ANNIVERSARY, EXACTLY TO THE MINUTE OF SIGNING EXECUTION ORDERS AT 21:50: https://archive.md/ENPU2 AND F BERIA WHO WAS SHOT WITH 6 ACCOMPLICES ON 12 23 1953 AND HIS BURIAL PLACE JUSTLY REMAINS SECRET TO THIS DAY... STALIN WAS REBURIED ON HALLOWEEN 1961, IN SHAME, UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS IN A SIMPLE GRAVE, IRONICALLY ON ALL SAINTS EVE, HOLIDAY HE BANNED! 1954 SURE LOOKED PROMISING UNTIL OFFICIAL DESTALINIZATION BY KHRUSHCHEV ON FEB 25 1956. HIS GRAVE STONE WAS MADE BY USSR GOV? ITS HALF WHITE, HALF BLACK, REPRESENTING HIS BOTH SIDES! |
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| Sep-19-22 | | Honest Adin Reviews: when comrade staljin did not like you, not only did he assassinate you, but he altered photos and took you out of them where you were close to him, same was with yezhov. but f yezhov murderer like stalin! http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org... tyrant joseph stalin was assassinated exactly 13 years to the minute of signning katyn execution orders on march 5 1940!!! uncle jo poisoned archive.ph/yaEFv |
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| May-19-23 | | Gottschalk: The Americans and British did not want to divide the World with the Germans
But you had to share it with someone, maybe the Russians were good people
The fact is that Roosevelt and Churchill thought they were sharing with Stalin,
when in fact they were sharing with Karl Marx, or better, Marxism.
And since then... Decay is inevitable!
For the World not to be destroyed, it is necessary that each one stays on his part of the Board
Instead of building military bases in Arabia, Russia and Vietnam.
Listen what the Bible says:
"What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?"
(Mark 8:36) |
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Kibitzing
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