Take Acropolis!

Take Acropolis!

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In the Chess Legends Series the Murphy Club declined our challenge, but its admin sent us a challenge from his another team ACROPOLIS - this group has a very high average rating. If we can beat them, we can beat anyone. Please join the match: https://www.chess.com/groups/team_match?id=755076

Nabokov did visit Acropolis in 1919.

According to Nabokov's biographer Brian Boyd, "to the young poet, the Acropolis seemed divine and he promptly wrote a poem about it as he sat on a marble flagstone, amid the pale poppies growing between crumbled remains."

I quote a few lines from this poem in Russian:

Я в первый раз Акрополь посещал...
Убогий грек со стразом на мизинце,
все добросовестно мне объясняя,
вводил меня в разрушенные храмы
своих непостижимых предков.

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