Claude Frizzel Bloodgood
. . . a petty thief who killed is own mother and managed to attain a USCF chess rating of 2702 due to the closed prison pool along with possible rating manipulations. His high rating and US championship eligibility pushed the USCF to re-vamp their rating system.
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I Won all two Tournaments Games against him and I won all 12 Friendly Games, too... Maybe he was too old and sick?
I knew, that he was been at the Prison somewhere in USA at that Time, but we never discussed it!
Last year I saw some little Info about him Online...
We Played at USCF Correspondent Tournaments, by mail cards!
Greg
That photo wins "creepiest prize" hands down. He looks a little like Morla from "The Never Ending Story" doesn't he? "Not that it matters, but yes."
Karpov - Kasparov
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I was been lucky to saw 19 Game of Karpov- Kasparov 1 Match at Moscow!
It was 5:0 at that moment, and Karpov missed his Won of the Game , Match and Title!
Reshevsky, the later years
That is a great photograph.
Edit: There is a handsome photo of Sammy playing in a masters tournament New York 1922 at the age of 11 in Fred Wilson's "A Picture History of Chess." I'd post it but I don't have a scanner.
FYI If you really enjoy these old classic photo's Wilson's book is a must win. It has almost 300 photographs and illustrations along with either comments or stories about them.
Amos Burn and Rev. John Owen (Alter) around 1885
great posts, great pics t/y all
Robert (Bob) Wade (right), Queenstown NZ 2006, nice tea set. !
Spassky, Tal and Petrosian - 1958
Humphrey Bogart
Alekhine is the scariest looking world champion. I put Tal as second-scariest and Kasparov as third.
Karpov was scariest! They called him "Boa"!
At the Manhattan Chess Club in 1971, a crowd gathered around a speed match between Mr. Fischer, left, and Andrew Soltis.
Very nice pictures. :) Looking at all these pictures makes me feel young. :)
Bogart has a try at a blindfolded Kolty.
Lasker and Tarrasch. The first pic must represent the Happy Days, when they were on speaking terms. The second pic is from their long-delayed match for the World Championship. By 1908 Tarrasch was well past his best chess but somehow he never was able, or willing, to arrange a match with Lasker. It's too bad for in the couple of years before 1894 (when Lasker beat Steinitz for the title), Tarrasch had won four big tournaments in a row and was generally considered the strongest player. By 1908 his chances had evaporated, especially against the younger Lasker. Tarrasch despised him so that at the opening ceremony Tarrasch refused to talk to Lasker, only saying:"Mr. Lasker, I have only three words to say to you: check and mate !" [wikipedia]
He needed more opportunity for those words as he lost +3 -8 =5.
You are absolutely correct jpd303... This is an obvious case of communist sabotage and assasination cover-up... The staged photo is clearly the work of the KGB's amateur theatrics department.
thank you! every time i see that pic i get angry and wonder what else was set up over the years by the KGB...Im sure CIA or some other secret ops also had their hands in chess too just for kicks competing with the KGB
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