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How Brighton Beach Helped Nicholas Christopher Tackle His 'Impossible' Role in Chess by Sophia Rubino

Over plates of Olivier salad at Tatiana’s Restaurant and Nightclub, Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek and Chess star Nicholas Christopher dove into the Russian culture of Brighton Beach, New York—the very same neighborhood that Christopher made a part of his process while preparing to play the steel-hearted Russian chess champion Anatoly Sergievsky. Anatoly’s journey has parallels to Christopher’s, w…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:00PM on April 23, 2026

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