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=Etymology=
OBender is named after the main character of the classic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire satirical novel] ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Chairs The Twelve Chairs]'' by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odessa Odessan] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union Soviet] authors [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilf_and_Petrov Ilf and Petrov], released in 1928, and its 1931 sequel ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Golden_Calf The Little Golden Calf]''. “[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/smooth_operator Smooth operator]” and [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conman conman] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostap_Bender Ostap Bender] is a tricky individual who makes people believe he's a chess grandmaster and makes a now very well-known speech about making a small town called Vasiuki very famous by engaging it into a series of chess matches against the whole world, and even against other planets <ref>[http://www.uschess.org/content/view/8881/475/ The United States Chess Federation - Ostap Bender and the Space Chess Game] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Life Glenn Petersen], November 8, 2008 </ref> <ref>[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=137965 The chess games of Ostap Bender] from [http://www.chessgames.com/index.html chessgames.com]</ref> <ref>[http://www.chess.com/blog/colibas/the-interplanetary-chess-congress The Interplanetary Chess Congress] by [http://www.chess.com/members/view/colibas colibas], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess.com [Chess.com]], August 17, 2012</ref>.
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