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 Chess is a musical scored by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, formerly of ABBA, with lyrics by Tim Rice. 
 The story involves a romantic triangle between two top players in a world chess championship within the context of a Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union, during which both countries wanted to win international chess tournaments for propaganda purposes. |  | ... EXCERPT: CHESS, THE MUSICALIn May 2008 Leighton stared as "Alexander Molokov" 
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