Pasha Kazakov was a chess player and taught his two sons Babel and Zechariah a symbolic theory of chess. He believed that each pin of the game had a meaning for human society and that the wooden board of an encounter demonstrated the strife, dependency, even bondage of a completely intact community. He understood a real world as a play area that divided the lives of its inhabitants into species, some of which recognize, convey, possess and hide grief and love. Everything he didn't understand about people, he tried to recognize and express in the world of chess. He tested the danger of
oppression of a people, devised the Karelian one Opening and
condemnation of communist virtues in connection with the Russian
chess game. Zacharias had now grown up and, after Pasha's
death, began to improve his chess game at his own discretion and to play smaller
tournaments in Ukraine. Was it now the exhausted reputation of the
father that looked for reputation! shouted, getting louder and louder, and run enough
then on his deathbed, the two sons asked for help? Was he, Zacharias
Kazakov, suddenly a chess player who was therefore forbidden to play the drums
? In 1915 he traveled to Moscow to compare Pasha's chess teachings with the notes he left with his sister Tonja on Kalinin Prospect. The need to be a resident of the
B/W diagram suddenly changed Zacharias' life, he thought
of the pulsating suffering of his father, who seemed to be buried with his own theory
without to have ever defended it victoriously. Heavy and
well-heeled, the pages of the manuscripts hit the air space, Zacharias read
and read, wrote down and made notes, placed the skittles on the black and white
painted board on the table level and saw the portrait of the drummer, who crept inexorably across the diagrams. The tsar was king, the tsarina was a lady, the doctor was a runner, he rummaged in the cupboard on the attic, dismantled Uncle Oleg's tin soldier regiment and placed the tin drummer in the field of the highest chess pawn. In this way he was closer to the wooden figures than any untried game system could have achieved. The battle could begin.

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