Ostap Bender in the new Vasyuki – an unforgettable chess tournament, perhaps every amateur chess remembers an unforgettable point from the masterpiece Ilf and Petrov Twelve Chairs –

Ostap Bender in new Vasyuki – an unforgettable chess tournament

Perhaps every chess lover remembers an unforgettable point from the masterpiece Ilf and Petrov Twelve Chairs – a chess tournament in the city of New Vasyuki (New Vasyuki). The simultaneous game session was held in the club Four Konya (renamed Shakhkluba at the offer of Ostap). Let's recall the aphorisms of the Osta Bender who were praised on quotes (chapter 37 International Chess Congress).

Video with the participation of Andrei Mironova (Twelve Chairs in 1976, director Mark Zakharov).

Vasyukin chess players did not listen to their love with sons. Ostava carried. He felt a tide of new forces and chess ideas.

– Chess! – said Ostap. – Do you know what chess is? They move forward not only culture, but also the economy! Do you know that Chess club four horses With the correct formulation of the case, will be able to completely transform the city of Vashuki?

Think about how beautiful will sound – International Vasyukin Tournament of 1927.

The arrival of Hose Raoul Capablanca, Emmanuel Lasker, Alekhina, Nyzovich, Reta, Rubinstein, Marotsi, Tarrash, Vimmara and Dr. Grigorieva – provided. In addition, my participation is also provided!

Dazzling prospects unfolded before Vasyukin lovers. The limits of the room expanded. The rotten walls of the connotation nest collapsed, and instead of them in the blue sky, a glass thirty-step-storey palace of chess thought was left. In each of his hall, in each room and even in the rushing bullets, thoughtful people were sitting and played chess on malachite-enclosed boards. Marble stairs really fell into the blue Volga. On the river stood ocean steamboats. Funicular Funicular Funiconors were risening in the city of face foreigners, chess lady, Australian fans of Indian defense, Hindus in white turbans – the adherents of the Spanish party, Germans, French, New Zealanders, the inhabitants of the Amazon River basin and, envy Vasyukinz, . Cars conveyor moved among marble hotels. But here – everything stopped. From the fashionable hotel Passing Pawn came out the champion of the world of Hose Raul Kapablanca and-Greupeer. He was surrounded by ladies. The policeman dressed in a special chess shape (Galifa in a cage and elephants on the buttercups), politely displaced. One-eyed chairman of the Vasyukin club of four horses came to the champion with dignity. The conversation of two shining, which was conducted in English, was interrupted by the arrival of Dr. Grigoriev and the future world champion of Alekhina. Welcome cliques shocked the city.Hose Raoul Kapablanca-and-Greupeer frowned. A marble staircase was filed by the hands of one-eyed hand to the airplane. Dr. Grigoriev escaped her, having swollen a new hat and commenting on a possible capplant error on the go on the upcoming match with Alekhin.

Suddenly on the horizon there was a black point. She quickly approached and grew, turning into a large emerald parachute. As a big radish, hung on a parachute ring man with a suitcase.

– It is he! – shouted one-eyed. – Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! I recognize the great philosopher chess player, Starichina Lasker. Only he is one worldwide wearing such green socks.

– Yes! And subsequently the universe. Chess thought that turned the county town to the capital of the globe will turn into applied science and invents the methods of a marginal message. From Vasyukov will fly signals to Mars, Jupiter and Neptune. A message with Venus is as easy as moving from Rybinsk to Yaroslavl. And there, how to know, maybe, after eight years in Vasyuki, the first in the history of the universe of the interplanetary chess tournament will take place!

Ostap wiped your noble forehead. He wanted to eat to such an extent that he would have eaten a fried chess horse.

Ostap slipped a look on the black black , which surrounded it from all sides, on a closed door and faintly began to work. He approached one-eyed, sitting at the first board, and moved the royal pawn from the E2 cell on the E4 cage.

– Grossmaster played E2 – E4.

In third, it turned out that the grandmaster plays eighteen Spanish parties. In the remaining twelve black applied, although outdated, but rather loyal defense of Phillora. If Besta learned that he plays such wisdom games and faces such tried protection, he would be extremely surprised. The fact is that the great combinator played chess for the second time in life.

– I just stood on this place my rook! – shouted one-eyed, seeking. – And now it is no longer there.

– Let me comrade, I have all the moves recorded.

– Office writes! – said Ostap.

– Hold the grandmaster! – Revel one-eyed.

– Pijons! – Estay shouted left. – What are you not going to your grandmaster? You, if I'm not mistaken, wanted to beat me?

– You understand Vasyukin individuals that I could eat you so much, but I give you life. Live, citizens! Only, for the sake of the creator, do not play chess! You just do not know how to play! Eh You, Pijons, Pigeons. We are going, Ippolit Matveevich, then! Farewell, one-eyed lovers! I am afraid that Vasyuki will not become the center of the Universe! I do not think that Masters Chess would come to such fools, as you, even if I asked them about it! Farewell, lovers of strong chess feelings! Long live club four horses!

An excerpt from the film Twelve Chairs of 1971 (director Leonid Gaidai). In the role of Ostav – Archil Gomiashvili.

Question to readers: Ostap in whose execution, Mironova or Gomashvili, did you like more? Who more convincingly played the chess player?