The chess brain

The chess brain – on the road to Siberia

The Road to Siberia
By Mehul Gohil

Not many people in the world know of John Mukabi. That kind of name is easier to pronounce than the hard to chew on “Khanty Mansiysk”, but it wouldn’t ring a bell or invoke the nostalgia of an old masterpiece… surely it cannot be the Alekhine-Mukabi 1-0 boilover (Bad Pistiyan 1937, Queen’s Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense) as annotated by Harry Golombek? That’s fiction.

Kenyan history is steeped in vivid story telling in the form of oral literature. Here is an example – Caissa made the first chess brain some 50 km south of Nairobi in the pre-historic wastelands of Olegersaille. She called it Homo Sapiens. Then from here, a couple of hundred thousand years ago, Homo Sapiens spread out of Africa and took the chess brain to all the other countries of the world.

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