Re: marxism-digest V1 #4156

[Ian Willmore <ianw@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>Still, there is no evidence that Karl played any games, and the only incident
I recall reading was of his being out on a drinking binge in London with
some
visitors from the contininent.  Perhaps he was a bleecher bum?"

Actually, Marx was a good chess player in the romantic late 19th century
style - he played like a revolutionary optimist, in fact. He was fond of
the King's Gambit (1 e4   1 ...e4        2f4, etc). I would put him at about
US Expert strength. See The Complete Chess Addict by Mike Fox and
Richard James for a sample game. Lenin and Trotsky were also players,
although less impressive. The CCA reveals that a New York chess player,
when shown a newspaper with information about Trotsky's exploits during
the war against the whites, scoffed "Trotsky - ha! Him I could give
knight odds ..."
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