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Charles Roth MPC (charlesrothmpc@micro.fragdev.com)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2017 21:51:40 UTC Charles Roth MPC #^A Human Chess Match Gets Played in Leningrad, 1924 http://www.openculture.com/2017/03/a-human-chess-match-gets-played-in-leningrad-1924.html
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Let's time travel back to Leningrad (aka St. Petersburg) in 1924. That's when an unconventional chess match was played by Peter Romanovsky and Ilya Rabinovich, two chess masters of the day.
Apparently, they called in their moves over the telephone.
@The passed pawn Inn+- @mcscx@quitter.se repeated this.