The article addresses the link between chess and global geopolitics. The Soviet Union used chess for decades as an instrument of propaganda and demonstration of intelligence of its grandmasters, consolidating it as an important element of its foreign policy.
The Cold War found in the chessboard a symbolic battlefield, materialized in the famous MATCH between the American Bobby Fischer and the Soviet Boris Spassky, held in Reykjavik.
The article title suggests that the current geopolitical tension involving Putin would have provoked a dispute for control of world chess leadership, although the provided excerpt does not develop this theme in depth.
