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Caricatures of Some Famous Chess Players? Who are they?

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RichColorado

Let's see if you know some chess players. Some are not current ones on the chess scene. . . . . .

                           # 1 This one is quite famous


# 2 Great player?

# 3



# 4
 

# 5

# 6
# 7
 
# 8
                                         
# 9
 
#10 Give you one real photo
 
# 11

# 12
# 13
 
RichColorado

                           Hm , . . . . . Maybe this is too hard?

RichColorado

                              Here is the new bonus one.

                             Here is a bonus one. He is a Dr.

This one must have been tough. So I give you another.
 
SocialPanda

# 5 Spassky, # 7 Euwe # 10 Najdorf # 11 Morphy # 12 Lasker # 13 Znosko-Borovsky

dashkee94

The names without a "?" I'm sure of, with a "?" I'm not sure of, just a "?" I don't know.

1. Capablanca; 2. Tal ? ; 3. Korchnoi; 4. Petrosian ? ; 5. Spassky; 6. Keres ? ; 7. Euwe; 8. Bogolubov ? ; 9. #6 again; 10. Najdorf; 11. Morphy; 12. Lasker; bonus ?

AussieMatey

 2- Jerzy Janowicz/Lurch    6+9- Graeme Swann    8- Colin Cowdrey     11- Captain Cook

2travel

Which one is Santa Claus ?

Nckchrls

Yeah #2 could be Tal or Vic Tayback, a TV comedian from the 70's

And #4 could be Petrosian or Danny Thomas, a comedian from the 60's

RichColorado

Sorry I put a duplicate and I just corrected it.

I put another on # 9.

# 8 must be hard for you.

dashkee94

#9 is Reshevsky

RichColorado

The above # 6 and # 8 has not been named yet.

The bonus one above was not named so I give you another.

RichColorado
dashkee94 wrote:
 

You did well on the Caricatures. I probably would not have done that good.

RichColorado
SocialPanda wrote:

# 5 Spassky, # 7 Euwe # 10 Najdorf # 11 Morphy # 12 Lasker # 13 Znosko-Borovsky

Social You got five out of 6 ID's

ghillan

last one is Steinitz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Steinitz

fabelhaft

#6 = Geller?

RichColorado

@ ghillan . . . . Good one!


 @fabelhaft . . . Not Geller!


RichColorado

I placed a photo in # 8

Hint he lived in San Francisco, California. USA.

TheOldReb

#6 Paul Keres ? 

TheOldReb

8 is Koltanowski ?

RichColorado

 @ dashkee94  You named # 6 correctly before.

 @ NM  REB . . . Thanks for the ID Of # 6

Geo Koltanowski . . . . Blind fold champion . . . Belgium Champion , , , Advocate of the Colle System . . . and My friend from San Francisco. , , and much more. . . .