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Chess tournaments are a great place for citizens of brutal regimes to defect ...

• remram 4y ago
  Is it? Why?
  • francisofascii 4y ago
    Because you have an excuse to travel abroad.
    • rurban 4y ago
      She is already playing for the Hamburg chess club (Germany) for years. And she will not return to Iran. She and her husband already moved to Spain.
  • Overtonwindow 4y ago
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1989/03/29/soviet-chess-champ-14-defects/109e36d3-cdec-4c22-a7a9-53327cac8add/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1989/03/29/... Quite a number of Soviet chess players defected while attending tournaments abroad.