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Shokh

By Katy Beinart 2020

A film of a performance by Katy and Rebecca Beinart using Yiddish characters to play a chess game, playing with the form of correspondence chess. The game is based on a 1927 game by Rudolf Spielmann and Rudolf L'Hermet. Part of the exhibition Correspondences at Five Years London.

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