Curse of Kirsan

- Nikolai Krylenko, the founder of the Soviet chess movement, was a public prosecutor at Stalin's show trials- One of the greatest players of all time, Alexander Alekhine, was an alcoholic who wrote anti-Semitic articles in Nazi newspapers- America's chess hero, Bobby Fischer, the world champion who single-handedly defeated the Soviet chess battalions, gave up the game after his victory and only resurfaced to break sanctions in Serbia