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I really like the chess pieces in post # 10 with Fischer. Does anyone know anything about these pieces ? Is it a jacques set perhaps ? Typical set in Argentina ?
10 year old Susan Polgar on a mission.
Wow this topic is HOT! We may end up with 1,000,000 pics by June '09!
KEEP'EM COMIN'!
By far the best thread ever on chess.com
I've never seen any of these pictures!
novagold wrote:
2 nice photos of Karpov, one of him observing a match at the 1978 World Championship, the other of him looking quite sinister in 1977.
Both amazing pictures, Karpov had real style.
Reb wrote:
I really like the chess pieces in post # 10 with Fischer. Does anyone know anything about these pieces ? Is it a jacques set perhaps ? Typical set in Argentina ?
I've had that photo in the NY Times magazine since 1971 and it's not the greatest for detail, so it's hard to know where they came from. They definitely are not the same style Jaques pieces used in the Spassky match but they appear to have the Jaques lines, older and better lines.
I recall that at first the organizers wanted to us the same equipment from Capablanca-Alekhine, but they later reconsidered and wanted to have equipment that they could say, "Here are the men and table from the Fischer-Petrosian match."
Comparing the Capa-Alekhine equipment (previous photo) to the hard-to-inspect photo from 1971, they look a lot alike. If I had to put my money down I'd say the organizers found another antique Jaques and used that.
The terms and conditions of the match might even state explicitly what men they were to use.
Kramnik-Topalov world championship match 2006