In 1918, chess grandmaster Ossip Bernstein was arrested by the Bolshevik secret police. He was ordered to be shot by a firing squad since he was an advisor to bankers, who were considered enemies of the people during the Red Terror and the Bolshevik revolution.
As the firing… pic.twitter.com/Egl9GvQEZt
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msamba 
I could imagine that the officer knew that he would lose to him.
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