A bit of chess humor.

In 1993, a children's chess team went to Malta to fight against Maltese peers. The match was opened by the Russian ambassador to Malta, Valentina Matvienko (where only life did not throw this woman). She decided to make the first move in the party of the leader, 12-year-old Sasha Pirzhkov, and moved the extreme pedestrian two fields forward.

Aunt, are you mad? Sasha was upset.

Matvienko almost fainted.

Boy, what do you allow yourself? Even Gorbachev doesn’t talk to me.

I don’t play that way, I understand. I always go to the king. Sasha Pyrozhkov said.

After this event, Valentina Matvienko bypasses chess tournaments by side.