1920s set of chess pieces from the Allen Hofrichter collection
UK: WHATEVER the privations of life in the Soviet Union, one could still enjoy a simple game of chess. But because official art is turned to the use of propaganda in every dictatorship, so the more opulent chess sets in post-revolutionary Russia became a metaphor for the struggle between communists and capitalists.
This 1920s set of pieces from the Allen Hofrichter collection, which was offered at Christie’s South…