Chess players from Russia and Cuba met in friendly tournament (+ Photo)
Chess players from Russia and Cuba met in friendly tournament (+ Photo)
Moscow, May 16 (Prensa Latina) Chess players from the Republic of Buryatia, in Russia, lost to a Cuban team, in an online contest organized by the Russian Society of Friendship with Cuba (SRAC), according to its official website.
The friendly tournament, also promoted by the Cuban Chess Federation and the Chess Federation of Buryatia, celebrated the centennial of Cuban José Raúl Capablanca s victory over then-world champion Emanuel Lasker.
Between March 18 and April 28, 1921, in Havana, the competition took place in which Capablanca broke the 27-year hegemony of the German chess player, with a 9-5 victory (four wins, zero losses, 10 draws ) which made him the third World Chess Champion.
Felicitan a Cuba desde Rusia por Día de los Trabajadores
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Sociedad de amistad rusa destaca victoria cubana en Playa Girón
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First: Gagarin and Cuba exhibition receives great acclaim worldwide First: Gagarin and Cuba exhibition receives great acclaim worldwide
Moscow, Apr 13 (Prensa Latina) Over 600 people from 30 countries visited the virtual First: Gagarin and Cuba exhibition on its first day on the Internet, informed on Tuesday the Russian Society of Friendship with Cuba, promoter of the initiative. As a tribute to the 60th anniversary of the first ever human space flight by Yuri Gagarin aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft, the exhibition has been on the https://gagarin2021.ru/ website since yesterday, April 12, in Russian, Spanish and English.
It includes images from TASS news agency on the Soviet cosmonaut s visit to Cuba in July 1961, as well as his activities as first president of the Soviet-Cuban Friendship Society, created in 1964 with the participation of Ernesto Che Guevara.