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11 Boris Yeltsin founded the Sverdlosk Chess Club in Russia. He exhorted his friend Anatoly Karpov to open it. In 1974, Stockholm hosted the first world computer chess championship, won by the Soviet program, Kaissa. 14 Surrealist artist Salvador Dali designed a chess set that replaced traditional chessmen with silver fingers and thumbs. When Napoleon died, he willed that his heart be cut out and placed inside a chess table.