{
  "id": 8617289,
  "title": "Red Pawns, Red Soldiers: How the Bolsheviks built a chess superpower",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/red-pawns-red-soldiers-how-the-bolsheviks-built-a-chess-superpower",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-20T04:26:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/chess/red-pawns-red-soldiers-how-the-bolsheviks-built-a-chess-superpower/articleshow/134363468.cms"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "In his latest Grandmaster View column, India’s young GM Aarav Dengla looks back at how the Bolsheviks transformed chess from a pastime of Russia’s aristocracy into an instrument of mass education, military training and cultural revolution. From Ilyin-Zhenevsky and the Red Army to Botvinnik, Tal, Karpov and Kasparov, Aarav traces how a century-old state-backed experiment helped build the Soviet…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}