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''"They can't even win a game!"
''We have never reckoned on coming second;
''There's no use in losing!''
|''[[Yanks With Tanks|U.S.]] [[Cold War|versus]] [[Reds with Rockets|U.S.S.R.]]''}}
A [[Rock Opera]] with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of [[ABBA]] and with book and lyrics by [[Tim Rice]]. Widely considered to be the latter's [[Magnum Opus]]. It was originally produced as a successful [[Concept Album]] in 1984, then became a West End production, and eventually reached Broadway. Each version of the show has undergone changes in story and music; Rice considers the version performed in concert at Royal Albert Hall in 2008, which both restores excised early material and includes some of the later changes, to be the official one. (Fortunately, it's available on DVD/Blu-Ray, and for [[Bonus Points]] stars [[Josh Groban]] and [[Wicked (theatre)|Idina]] [[Frozen (Disney film)|Menzel]].)
The plot of each version has about this much in common: it concerns the World Chess Championships set against the backdrop of the [[Cold War]]. There's the brash American champion Freddie Trumper, the reserved Russian challenger Anatoly Sergievsky, the American's second ([[Word of God|and not at all girlfriend]]) Florence Vassey who switches her affections to the Russian, the Russian's wife Svetlana, KGB and CIA agents (Alexander/Ivan Molokov and Walter de Courcey, respectively) working behind the scenes, and an Arbiter presiding over the tournaments.
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