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  • Episode 391
  • 26 Jun 2021
  • 30 min

Checkmate: chess and politics

  • The Foreign Desk
  • Episode 391
  • 30 min

Sometimes art imitates life; sometimes games do too. And parallels between chess and the political arena have existed for centuries. But are there really any similarities? How was the game used as a pawn in the cold war? And could the chessboard once again become a soft-power battleground? Andrew Mueller…

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  • Andrew Mueller

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