In October 2017 the Guardian newspaper ran a series of features from Central Asia on the Guardian Cities webpage, entitled ‘Secret Stans’. The article “The decline of Russian dominance is striking: readers respond from the Stans” includes one of my photographs, of some men playing chess in Almaty in Kazakhstan.
See the photo on Guardian Cities.
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I love watching men playing games in the street. Serious chess in Lviv with clocks to time moves, backgammon on top of a bin in Signagi in Georgia, checkers in Tirana’s Skandebeg Square. Wasted a fair few minutes over the years watching those animated contests!
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