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Part One: Bobby Fischer: Chess Nazi

Behind the Bastards

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Nagedorf Is a Grandmaster in Chess

In 1950 Fide creates the rank of international grandmaster and they choose 27 people to be the first grandmasters Nagedorf is one of them. Nat Nashorf today I think is probably most famous is like there's an opening in chess called the Nagedorf variation. There are a lot of Jews who fled to Argentina before this was happening so do not automatically assume that someone with the European less named Argentina's and Nazi because there's actually a good chance that they're like someone who is fleeing the Nazis. Yep so no magical realism for you.

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