"The Killing" Chess Club Scene with Kola Kwariani ...

The bald headed guy is professional wrestler and chess expert, Kola Kwariani, who played chess in New York City's Chess & Checker Club where he met Stanley Kubrick.Kola playing the role of a chess-playing wrestler named Maurice Oboukhoff, who is hired to start a fight and so create a diversion during a heist. Stanley Kubrick, and Sterling Hayden appeared on cover of Chess Review magazine in March 1956. Both Kubrick and Kwariani were very well known in New York chess circles. In 1950-1960 Kola Kwariani was an active member of the Chess and Checker Club in New York City, also known as "The Flea House". In February 1980, while entering the Chess and Checker Club, Kwariani was seriously injured and beaten to death at age 77 after being assaulted by a group of teenagers.

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