Soviet and British Chess
If you read Soviet Chess by D. J. Richards (O.U.P., 25s.) you will learn much about chess
and more about Communism. Study, for example, the telegram sent to Stalin by Botvinnik (later world champion) after the Nottingham chess tournament in 1936:
Dear beloved teacher and leader,
. I am infinitely happy to be able to report that a representative of Soviet chess has shared first place in the tournament with ex-champion of the world, Capablanca.
This was possible only because I sensed behind of our government and our party and above all that daily care which you, our great leader, have taken and still take, to raise to unprecedented heights our great motherland and to rear in us representatives of Soviet youth a healthy and joyful generation in all fields of our socialist construction. . . .
Chess in this country is poor but honest. If you would like to help a different approach to the Soviet school, you may like to know that the British Chess Federation has set up a Junior Chess Trust Fund and. for the first £3,000, will match subscribers' payments pound for pound. If you want to help our chess to flourish, send a donation to B.C.F. Treasurer, I. Cohen, 48 Beacontree Avenue, Walthamstow, E.18.
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