SCP-7938

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**Item #:** SCP-7938

**Object Class:** Neutralized

**Secondary Class:** Mutually Dependent[[footnote]] Item consists of two or more separate, non-anomalous entities that require the other to maintain anomalous properties. [[/footnote]]

**Special Containment Procedures:** Given the 1981 World Chess Championship, the sporadic nature in which SCP-7938 manifested, and the 2016 expiration of SCP-7938-B, future SCP-7938 events have been deemed impossible. No containment procedures are required, and SCP-7938's primary containment class has been designated, "Neutralized".

**Description:** SCP-7938 was a supposed reality-bending temporal anomaly that occurred between July 18, 1978 - October 18, 1978. SCP-7938 consisted of SCP-7938-A, known as "Anatoly Karpov", and SCP-7938-B, known as "Viktor Korchnoi". The hypothesized manifestation of SCP-7938 is believed to have been contingent on the competition of both SCP-7938-A and SCP-7938-B in the 1978 World Chess Championship.

**Discovery:** SCP-7938 was brought to the attention of the Foundation on October 18, 1978, when numerous transcribed chess games and recorded television broadcasts were found to have been documented on the SCP-7938 file. The validity of the existence of SCP-7938 is unverifiable, as information regarding the anomaly only exists within the SCP file.

Upon being interviewed, SCP-7938-A and SCP-7938-B claimed to have no recollection of SCP-7938. Eyewitness information received suggested upon analysis that the relationship of SCP-7938-A and SCP-7938-B was at least partially altered following the supposed conclusion of SCP-7938 from what it was prior.


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##F5F5F5|Ready to play?##

##F5F5F5|I can't play tonight.##

##F5F5F5|What? Why are you here then?##

##F5F5F5|I can't live in Leningrad anymore.##

##F5F5F5|So? You and me can still play tonight and then help you move later! What town is it? Moscow, Volgograd, or somewhere else?##

##F5F5F5|I can't stay in this country. I do not trust the people in charge with my life.##

##F5F5F5|You are famous! You needn't worry! What about your family?##

##F5F5F5|I hope they may join me.##

##F5F5F5|You- you're leaving your family?##

##F5F5F5|I'll try to rejoin them a few weeks later.##

##F5F5F5|You are leaving our homeland to do what? Live in some inferior land?##

##F5F5F5|I have to.##

##F5F5F5|So this is the last time I'll see you?##

##F5F5F5|We'll still play against each other!##

##F5F5F5|Abandon your homeland, abandon your family, and just expect to play against me all the same?##

##F5F5F5|Anatoly, I-##

##F5F5F5|Get out of my house! Go!##

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The 1978 World Chess Championship was an event where the first player to win six games would become the World Chess Champion. Per FIDE rules, a win would count towards 1 point for the victor, 0 points for the loser, and a draw would result in both players gaining 0.5 points.

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+++ Game #1, July 18 | 1978
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**Result:** Draw

**Termination:** Unwilling bodily-movement

**Details:** After 52 minutes, both players agreed to a draw and exited the room. Both players re-entered the room after 5-minutes and resumed the chess game for 254 moves until no further moves were theoretically possible. Staff that attempted to intervene were terminated via blunt force trauma.

**Aftermath:** 21,900 civilians have been terminated by SCP-7938 in Baguio, Philippines. An evacuation was rapidly enacted during initial containment attempts.

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+++ Game #3, July 18 | 1978
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**Result:** Draw

**Termination:** Torn vocal cords

**Details:** SCP-7938-A and SCP-7938-B proceeded to verbally berate each other for 49 consecutive hours. Game ceased with no progress made as both player's vocal cords were rendered unable to produce sound.

**Aftermath:** An emergency meeting between the Ethics Committee, the Unreality Department, --O5-12--[[footnote]] Unavailable. [[/footnote]] O5-9, Mike Carlsen from the Site-17 Janitorial Staff, and the entire civilian population of Cuba was convened to determine a resolution pertaining to SCP-7938.

**Resolution:** Assassinate Nigel Short 1 second after he becomes a Chess Grandmaster.[[footnote]] Resolution failed after the assassination was completed 1.4 seconds following Nigel Short becoming a Grandmaster. [[/footnote]]

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+++ Game #7, July 18 | 1978
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**Result:** SCP-7938-A winning

**Termination:** Cannibalism

**Details:** After 17 moves, SCP-7938-A proceeded to assault and disembowel SCP-7938-B over a period of 49 minutes. SCP-7938-A consumed approximately 91.31% of SCP-7938-B's body mass. The remaining 8.69% of SCP-7938-B's person proceeded to reconstruct itself into a functioning brain and skeletal system and resign, prior to exiting the facilities of the match and expiring.

**Aftermath:** A bovine in London[[footnote]] Close in proximity to London. [[/footnote]] rapidly assumed the form of SCP-7938-B shortly following the conclusion of the game. A second bovine in close proximity rapidly assumed the form of a business suit that SCP-7938-B promptly adorned.

The rancher has been compensated for the loss of her cows with an equal weight of McDonald's ketchup packets[[footnote]] Each partially used. [[/footnote]].

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//An entity wearing a green hood, green mask, and purple business suit is seen standing in front of a desk.//

**???:** And that there is the conclusion of the 30th game of the Championship.

//Still frames appear on-screen depicting two humanoids without skin sitting around a chessboard.//

**???:** Standard tactics have been utilized in the game, which culminated in a draw. Given the lack of interesting content across the past and following several days, we have scheduled an interview with the organizer of the 1978 WCC.

//The feed cuts and transitions to the upper body of the same entity standing in a different room. The entity talks in a slightly deeper pitch of voice.//

**???:** Greetings to chess players and casual watchers across the world! Many of you who are familiar with chess may not recognize me as a commentator. So who am I? Well-

//The entity laughs.//

**???:** We are here for the players and the beautiful game they have been playing. So simply think of me as a being brought into this world a few decades ago, exclusively to let the world know about the updates in the day-to-day lives of these men!

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**Note:** Two masses of bones, organs, and flesh lacking skin materialized in New York, United States during the broadcast. 

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+++ Game #47, July 18 | 1978
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**Result:** SCP-7938-B winning

**Termination:** Incineration

**Details:** After 148 moves, SCP-7938-A experienced rapid internal-combustion via interference brought by SCP-7938-B. The undamaged remains of SCP-7938-A's nervous system and brain proceeded to concede the game and collapse into a pile of ash.

**Aftermath:** San Marino has annexed the Soviet Union. Liechtenstein remains the sole nation leading the free world.

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+++ Game #237, July 18 | 1978
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**Result:** Mutual victory

**Termination:** Donation

**Details:** SCP-7938-A and SCP-7938-B were granted an equivalent of 4 wins.

**Aftermath:** --O5-1-- | --O5-9-- | --Ethics Committee Emergency Director Anand-- | --Site-15 Director Lynn-- | --Commander Liren-- | Dr. Thrakka has ordered the emergency creation of a mathematical council to determine the amount of games needed for either SCP-7938-A or SCP-7938-B to win the championship.


**Conclusion:** Either player is currently at 5 games won, placing them between 1 and 260 victories required to achieve 6 wins.[[footnote]] Figure is an estimate. Requires citation. [[/footnote]]

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+++ Global Emergency Alert Message

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**Note:** The message appears to have been sent by the Foundation through the hijacking of an existing television broadcast, rather than the standard Emergency Alert System. Television hijacking equipment utilized was shown to either be faulty, or inherently weaker than the signal of the broadcast it was trying to intercept.

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//Various personnel are seen on screen, with Site-84 Director Castle is standing center on-screen.//

Do not panic. This is an emergency alert message broadcast globally by the SCP Foundation. You do not know who we are, as we have operated in the shadows. After this is resolved, you may learn that later. But currently, our ##F5F5F5|main focus is on## the security and safety of the world. For the past 24 hours, numerous reality-altering events have occurred. You may have experienced these events firsthand. ##F5F5F5|This event was created by a temporal anomaly that wishes to## destroy everyone you love and hold dear. We will ##F5F5F5|not## let this happen. We are working our best to contain the anomaly, ##F5F5F5|and will not## stop ##F5F5F5|until we have tried to## give ##F5F5F5|everything we can to protect civilians affected. If you are able to, enter a safe facility and bunker in place for the next 24 hours. Remain in place until the time is## up.

//TV static is heard for 19 seconds.//

In the event that you or a loved one appear to have been terminated by the anomaly, or appear to replicate the status of an expired individual, please relocate the affected individual outside of the place in which you are barricaded. Corpses are ##F5F5F5|dangerous to leave around and present a## great ##F5F5F5|risk to your health via bacterial disease. Discard any food you have on hand that appears## to smell.

//The TV feed cuts to black.//

##F5F5F5|Game 8 of the 1947 Leningrad Open. 16-year-old Karpov has been playing a beautiful game against the 17-year-old Korchnoi, both of who are tied for first place. Whoever wins this game, will win the event.##

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##F5F5F5|Draw?##

##F5F5F5|Huh?##

##F5F5F5|Do you want this to just be a draw?##

//##F5F5F5|Anatoly laughs.##//

##F5F5F5|Sure!##

##F5F5F5|Great game, Anatoly!##

##F5F5F5|Likewise, Viktor!##

##F5F5F5|Don't think I've met you around here before!##

##F5F5F5|You know how chaotic it has been since the siege.##

##F5F5F5|Yes. But at least we won!##

##F5F5F5|Do you live in Leningrad?##

##F5F5F5|Yes. And you?##

##F5F5F5|Just down the street from this club!##

##F5F5F5|Well I'll make sure to come down here sometime! Perhaps we can play against each other again!##

##F5F5F5|That would be great! I'll see you around, Viktor.##

//The TV signal is restored.//

That is all at the time. Secure, contain, pro-

//The audio freezes. Text on the screen appears saying, "The wolf may no longer chase its rabbit, for a bear has claimed both as its prize."//

**???:** Sorry about that interruption, viewers at home. We are immediately reporting that to the police! Regardless, let us proceed to game 984!

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+++ Game #984, July 18 | 1978
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**Result:** Draw

**Termination:** Busywork

**Details:** SCP-7938-A and SCP-7938-B were forced to shake hands for 18 concurrent hours, agreeing to a draw.

**Aftermath:** Site-84 has been demolished by SCP-7938. All personnel within Site-84 are missing, --presumed neutralized.-- confirmed alive, lacking facial features.

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+++ Game #1,450, July 18 | 1978
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**Result:** Draw

**Termination:** Detonation of appendages relating to analytical thinking

**Details:** Following 87 moves of standard play, both players experienced the detonation of 63% of their body mass.

##F5F5F5|It has been 25 years, Anatoly.##

##F5F5F5|And?##

##F5F5F5|Let us end this.##

##F5F5F5|And how do you suppose we do that?##

##F5F5F5|You resign the next game.##

##F5F5F5|Then you walk away with the glory?##

##F5F5F5|It isn't about that-##

##F5F5F5|And who's to say that I do not get left behind? That wouldn't even be the first time you abandoned me!##

##F5F5F5|Anatoly, I did not abandon you. It was my choice on where I get to live, and you need to stop being selfish and accept reality.##

##F5F5F5|The reality is that you were sick of your life, and without notice left your unemployed wife and 5 year old child to live out some dream life in Liechtenstein!##

##F5F5F5|Ah yes, my dream life where I left everyone I knew and befriended!##

##F5F5F5|Where you left me to support your family who you would never need to care for again.##

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+++ Game #2,968, July 18 | 1978
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**Result:** Draw

**Termination:** M.A.D.ness

**Details:** Both players threatened to terminate the other through radiation poisoning. Upon realizing terminating the other through radiation poisoning would result in their own expiration, each player started attempting to convince civilians to become their friend. 

**Aftermath:** Game ended with neither player expiring and 2,398 civilians suffering from radiation poisoning.

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+++ Game #3,401, July 18 | 1978
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**Result:** Draw

**Termination:** SCP-7938-A winning

**Details:** SCP-7938-B resigned on move 2. Game officially counted as a draw.

**Aftermath:** A five-minute break has been agreed upon to allow both players ample time to rest. Both players have been penalized with fifty-five-hours of torture across their break, in accordance with the 2004 Guide to Torture and Bodily Mutilation. 

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**???:** Over 3,500 games. Wonderous!

//The entity exhales.//

**???:** Though another draw, I am sure they will play a game interesting enough to wind up decisive sooner rather than later!

//96% of global TV broadcasts cease.//

**???:** You'd think after they each got 4 free wins, they'd be inspired to end the match faster. But nope! I will say, a good note is that the entire world seems to be watching us! Or at least, most of the world!

//The recording switches to a showing of, "The Scarlet Flower" playing on an undocumented TV channel.//

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##F5F5F5|Nice that they have an elektroteatr in Leningrad now.##

##F5F5F5|Indeed.##

##F5F5F5|Want to see another movie next time we visit?##

##F5F5F5|Of course!##

##F5F5F5|That would be your wedding, right Viktor?##

##F5F5F5|Beautiful Bela. 2 more weeks until I forever join her.##

##F5F5F5|Then let us drink to your new, long, and healthy marriage!##

##F5F5F5|And drink we shall!##

//All global television and radio broadcasts that are not C.C.R.-affiliated cease simultaneously.//

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+++ Game #5,901, July 18 | 1978
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**Result:** Draw

**Termination:** Resignation

**Details:** SCP-7938-A resigned prior to the first move. 

**Aftermath:** A 54-hour break was declared so players could rest. The immediate family of both SCP-7938-A and SCP-7938-B were teleported in front of them as concrete surrounding both players assumed the form of restraints against them. Both players were subsequently forced to stand in place with both eyes open at their families. All family members present faced anomalous alteration, including the rapid growth of additional limbs, the growth of excess flesh and skin, the transformation of skin into cartilage, incineration, and forced vocalization. After the break concluded, all individuals were installed as a permanent addition to the playing venue. Both players were released and allowed to continue playing games.

##F5F5F5|I trusted you!##

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##F5F5F5|You can not blame this on me!##

##F5F5F5|This is all your fault!##

##F5F5F5|Anatoly, if I knew what would happen I would not tell you to do it.##

##F5F5F5|Why? Because you really care for others around you, right?##

##F5F5F5|If I knew what would happen to my family-##

##F5F5F5|Don't you even mention Bela and Igor.##

##F5F5F5|I am not a soulless monster! Just listen to me!##

##F5F5F5|Give me one good reason why you are not to blame for my family and yours being tortured in that hall!##

##F5F5F5|I already have. Perhaps you should open your ears and listen to what I have to say!##

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+++ Game #10,000, July 18 | 1978
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**Result:** Draw

**Termination:** Stalemate

**Details:** SCP-7938-B summoned an army of 980,002 yoga instructors of U.S. descent[[footnote]] Each charged with 1st degree murder. [[/footnote]] to seize the temporary residence of SCP-7938-A. SCP-7938-A utilized his hypnotic beams to cause approximately 50% of SCP-7938-B's army to defect. Over the proceeding 870 moves, 62% of yoga instructors expired prior to both sides agreeing to a --ceasefire-- temporary pause of fighting.

**Aftermath:** Thousands weep for their brothers, enemies, and those innocent they may never know that were lost in the war between two rich men over pennies.

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+++ Game #39,800, July 18 | 1978
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**Result:** Draw

**Termination:** Reconstruction bit by bit

**Details:** If they refuse to play a good game, they will be shaped into a form that can.

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##F5F5F5|Anatoly!##

##F5F5F5|Bela. I'm-##

##F5F5F5|Where's Viktor? He's been gone since last night!##

##F5F5F5|I'm so sorry.##

##F5F5F5|He's dead?!##

##F5F5F5|No, thankfully. But he's gone to Liechtenstein.##

##F5F5F5|Liechtenstein!?##

//##F5F5F5|Bela cries.##//

##F5F5F5|But he is safe? Right?##

##F5F5F5|As safe as you can be in a land like that. Where's Igor?##

##F5F5F5|Sleeping.##

##F5F5F5|Let's go out so we don't wake him.##

##F5F5F5|Can I see him again?##

##F5F5F5|I don't know. I hope we both can. That he and Igor may reunite. Just-##

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##F5F5F5|I don't know. I just want to make sure that you are supported through this.##

##F5F5F5|Thank you.##

##F5F5F5|If you ever need help just ask me or Irina.##

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**Aftermath:** Even with new parts, both cars still work the same.

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+++ Game #54,052, July 18 | 1978
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**Result:** Draw

**Termination:** Repeated-atomic disintegration

**Details:** A figure grows angrier and angrier as each day goes on that threatens to be the same.

**Aftermath:** We are not here. We are not ruling from Tokyo to La Paz. We are not able to pray. We are not dead. We are not alive. We are not stupid. We are not able to resist. We are not able to work in departments. We are not able to secure. We are not able to contain. We are not able to protect. We are not able to express our sorrow. We are not able to speak. We are not able to run. We are not able to rely on the O5, the Committee, the Unreality, the Fire Suppressionists, the five Tau, the Shark Punchers, or the failsafes. We are not the failsafe anymore. We are not in control. We are not in the 5,000. We are not good at chess. We are not what we were.

##F5F5F5|Anatoly.##

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##F5F5F5|I'm sorry about your family.##

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##F5F5F5|I should have said that earlier.##

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##F5F5F5|I just-##

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##F5F5F5|Didn't think of what you saw.##

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##F5F5F5|I never really did. I always thought that-##

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##F5F5F5|That you were just wrong. San Marino was, and still is, a state that I can not live in. Not anymore.##

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##F5F5F5|We were living the best life. Heroes of our nation. Two of the three best chess players in the world, with the third being some American antisemite.##

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##F5F5F5|Then I left my family behind knowing they might not be able to join me. Might not want to join me.##

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##F5F5F5|I just need to-##

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##F5F5F5|Want to. I want to say that I realize why you hate me. I disagree with you on that, but I want you to know that I understand where you are coming from. I hope you hear that.##

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##F5F5F5|I at least hope you are able to hear me through the pain.##


We are at the mercy of those two who are right, left, wrong, right, and in the center of it all.

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+++ Game #57,096, July 18 | 1978
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**Result:** Draw

**Termination:** Malnutrition

**Details:** Without sustenance, you tend to grow rather weak.

**Aftermath:** The entity closes its eyes for but a second. ##F5F5F5|Which is all they need.##

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##F5F5F5|So?##

##F5F5F5|I don't know. You wanted to talk here while that thing slept.##

##F5F5F5|We need to find a way to end this.##

##F5F5F5|No way. Seriously?##

##F5F5F5|Yes but without the sarcasm!##

##F5F5F5|Let's calm down. We might only have a few minutes.##

##F5F5F5|Or hours.##

##F5F5F5|Even if it is mere hours, let us just think, Viktor.##

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##F5F5F5|What if we die? Does that end it?##

##F5F5F5|How?##

##F5F5F5|If we can just find something.##

##F5F5F5|The only thing I can see is you. Everything around me is dark.##

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##F5F5F5|It wouldn't work, either.##

##F5F5F5|Why?##

##F5F5F5|Viktor, think of how many times we died. We can't just die one more time and have it be over. Even if we tried 3,999 times.##

##F5F5F5|So I guess you and me are just stuck here for the rest of time.##

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##F5F5F5|I do want you to know that I heard what you said, Viktor.##

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##F5F5F5|About my wife and son.##

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##F5F5F5|About your wife and son. I could hear everything.##

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##F5F5F5|I'm sorry, Viktor.##

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##F5F5F5|I really am.##

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##F5F5F5|I don't have the right to judge you for leaving San Marino. I never did.##

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##F5F5F5|It was just that-##

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##F5F5F5|I can't say anything.##

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##F5F5F5|I felt betrayed.##

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##F5F5F5|We'd been friends since we were kids. Old kids, but still friends.##

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##F5F5F5|Best friends. Best friends who went to the movies, who played in tournaments together, who were there for each others weddings.##

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##F5F5F5|National heroes. San Marino was the best at chess, and we were the best chess players in San Marino. Why would anyone give that up?##

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##F5F5F5|I could never understand you. Leaving it all behind, how stupid it was.##

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##F5F5F5|Now I do.##

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##F5F5F5|I was wrong to hate you for it.##

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##F5F5F5|I see how hard it was. I did nothing to help that.##

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##F5F5F5|I'm so sorry.##

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##F5F5F5|Viktor?##

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##F5F5F5|Are you there?##

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##F5F5F5|Anatoly?##

##F5F5F5|Viktor! You're there!##

##F5F5F5|It's been months! I thought I lost where you were!##

##F5F5F5|I-##

##F5F5F5|Anatoly, I heard what you said. All of it.##

##F5F5F5|I still mean every word of it.##

##F5F5F5|It's good you do.##

##F5F5F5|Listen, I- I-##

##F5F5F5|I don't know what we do next. If that thing wakes up I don't know when we'll see peace like this again. I don't know if we'll be us again.##

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##F5F5F5|Viktor, if after this moment we will never be us again, I want to say something. As me.##

##F5F5F5|And that is?##

##F5F5F5|I do not care if you forgive me. But I want you to know from the bottom of my heart that I was wrong to judge you. You already heard that, but I want you to remember it. Promise me that, Viktor.##

##F5F5F5|I still forgive you.##

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##F5F5F5|Well, Anatoly, what is there to do now?##

##F5F5F5|We wait for that thing to come back and decide how to finish us off.##

##F5F5F5|But what do we do in the meantime?##

##F5F5F5|It is up to you.##

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##F5F5F5|Do you want to play a game of chess?##

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+++ Game #57,097, October 18 | 1978
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**Result:** SCP-7938-A winning

**Termination:** Resignation

**Details:** SCP-7938-A, who held the white pieces, gradually would score a tactical advantage in the Classical Pirc. Though mostly evenly balanced throughout the game, on move 35 SCP-7938-A began to gain the advantage prior to a series of blunders by SCP-7938-B, causing massive material loss. On move 41, seeing no way to recover the position, SCP-7938-B resigned the game, resulting in SCP-7938-A winning the World Chess Championship.

**Aftermath:** What happened never happened. We will make sure it never happens again.

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SCP-7938 concluded after 391 years with SCP-7938-A winning 28,544.5 - 28,443.5 against SCP-7938-B. 

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