The 2,000,000th post game

Originally posted by riv6672
Your mind wanders 30% of the time.

... and even more when YouTube randomly puts stuff like this on their "Recommendations" page for me ...

🙁

I was searching for videos of cars this time when they gave me the first on that list, for crying out loud!

(To be fair, though, I had months ago watched that clip Rachel featured back on page 50358 of this thread.)

Found a channel of people who get even more bored than me sometimes, apparently ...

(Titled TrendyChallenge on Instagram, though this is the YouTube version.)

mmm. I'm not sure what it says that our current President is featured in one of these, but, whatever ...

Not now rudester

Patients patients he has made his check mate.

All cards are on the table.

They should make electric cards.

Beautiful Michaela Schaar leg presses several hundred pounds of weight.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nysiUsQbFE8

For some reason, TurboImageHost wouldn't work when I posted the previous message; seems alright now, though ...

mmm Not exactly sure what this challenge is SUPPOSED to entail, but I'm pretty sure this girl didn't win it ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy17VTjBgG0

13 symptoms of mold illness ...

https://tiphero.com/symptoms-of-mold-illness

... and something about Aldi.

https://tiphero.com/7-inside-secrets-about-aldi?ref=wn

Shermie, King of Fighters 1998. Victory cut screen.

An otherwise overmatched game saved by my Knights and won by my queen:

In 1936, Pyotr Izmailov (1906-1937) was arrested and sentenced to death in the Soviet Union, accused of plotting to assassinate Stalin. He was executed in April, 1937. In 1928, he was the first champion of the Russian Republic.

In February 1937, 13 chess players were arrested in Danzig for talking Socialistic politics in between moves. The police charged them with trying to keep alive the forbidden Social Democratic party.

In 1937, chess problemist Mikhail Platov was arrested in Russia after making a derogatory remark about Stalin. He was shipped off to the Gulag in Siberia and died within a year.

In 1937, Nikolai Krylenko (1885-1938), Chairman of the Chess Section of the Supreme Council for Physical Culture of the Russian Federal Republic, was arrested in Russia and later executed on orders from Stalin. One of the charges against him was that he had retarded the development of chess in the Soviet Union.

On July 29, 1938, Nikolai Krylenko (1885-1938), who headed the Soviet Chess Association, was executed in Stalin’s purges. His trial lasted 20 minutes, he was then found guilty and immediately shot.

In 1940, the Germans arrested all the chess players that were meeting at the Warsaw Chess Club (Kwiecinski Chess Café), which was banned earlier by the Germans. The Jews were all taken to a concentration camp (Danilowicowskia) and were later killed in a mass execution. This included Polish masters Dawid Przepiorka, Achilles Frydmann, Stanislaw Kohn, and Moishe Lowtzky.

In September 1940, Menahem Begin (1913-1992) was playing chess with his wife when he was arrested at home by Russian troops (NKVD). At the time, he was an active member of the Zionist movement.

In June 1941, Estonian player Ilmar Raud (1913-1941) was found wandering in the streets of Buenos Aires and was arrested by the police. A fight occurred while he was in jail, and he was later sent to a lunatic asylum, where he died on July 13, 1941, most likely of starvation.