[Men playing chess, Israel]

[Two boys play a game of chess on a park bench with crowd of spectators looking on, Moscow]

[American soldiers playing chess, United States Army Airfield, North Africa]

[Soldiers playing chess on deck of a troop ship from England to Casablanca]

[Republican soldiers playing chess in the trenches, University City, Madrid]

[John Steinbeck (center) at a table with men and women, Ukraine Soviet Republic]

[Allied soldiers preparing for Normandy invasion, Weymouth, England]

[Allied soldiers preparing for Normandy invasion, Weymouth, England]