A Soviet film from the 1920s with no evident reference to ideology

A brief note on a brief (30 minutes) film, a Soviet film from the silent era (the 1920s) called Chess Fever, remarkable in that I for one cannot find any reference to Soviet workers, agriculture, manufacturing, or military might. It's just a light-hearted look at the Russian fixation on chess, imagining if you will a world in which people follow chess with the ferocity that we today associate with football, soccer, or - in past decades - horse racing and professional boxing. The center of the film is a young man so obsessed with plotting out chess moves that he misses a date with his fiancee, who follows by kicking him out of her life. He's distraught - and as he wanders the snow-choked city we see a few (somewhat) amusing scenes: people walk the streets looking at newspaper printouts of chess boards, a policeman arrests a suspect but lets him go when they realize they both are chess-nuts, people see black/white squares of floor tile and begin to play chess on them, and so forth. The young man eventually gets to a bridge overlooking a rushing river, considers suicide, but instead throws his pocket-sized chess board into the waters and returns to his fiancee, ready to pledge that he's given up the game. But she has now become a fanatic! They find a small chess board, and everyone's happy. This short, showing now at MOMA in NYC, has been compared with Chaplain or Keaton short films; that's quite an over-reach, but it's an interesting curiosity - the kind of film that appeared from time to time in the early years (Vertov, e.g.) but would probably later be condemned as anti-Soviet, for its satiric look at many working-class people and for offering no positive (i.e., in keeping with the current Orthodoxy) resolution.