What rela­tion­ship does a Span­ish chess play­er have with the most famous world cham­pi­on in chess his­to­ry, the dic­ta­tor­ship of Gen­er­al Fran­co and the silent strike of Asturi­an min­ers with racial repres­sion in the USA and Mal­colm X, the mis­sile cri­sis of Cuba and a chess game played in Stock­holm in 1962. Per­haps all these his­tor­i­cal events have noth­ing to do, or per­haps every­thing has a strange connection.