Alekhine and his cat "Check" playing Erich Elkiases.
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This is the authentic picture of V.I.Lenin playing chess with Gorky at Capri in 1908.
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Lenin played with Rebel Bogdanov, as I can recall back to my Russian's Library 15-20 years ago... Maksim Gorky /Peshkov, by original name/ is looking aside on Top of photo...
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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.
....... 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!
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batgirl wrote:
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.
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."
billwall wrote:
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.
another of Mr. Fischer.
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Amos Burn and Rev. John Owen (Alter) around 1885 |
one more.....
The man on the left in this 1935 photo is Leonid Ilich Brezhnev |
Vladimir Iljitsch Uljanow Lenin |
Helmut Schmidt |
great posts, great pics t/y all
Robert (Bob) Wade (right), Queenstown NZ 2006, nice tea set. !
Konrad Adenauer |
Menachem Begin and Zbigniew Brzezinski at Camp David, 1978. |
Mikhail Gorbachev |
Tigran Petrosian at 16 |
Sean Lennon |
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Spassky, Tal and Petrosian - 1958 |
Alekhine is the scariest looking world champion. I put Tal as second-scariest and Kasparov as third.
Larry C. Morris/The New York Times
At the Manhattan Chess Club in 1971, a crowd gathered around a speed match between Mr. Fischer, left, and Andrew Soltis.
Koltanowski takes on a few blindfold. His record was 34 games at once.