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goldendog

Reshevsky enters his first tournament, NY 1922, and claims his first GM scalp, Janowski, in a later round. Janowski is obscured in the middle on the other side of the table.

batgirl

"Reshevsky enters his first tournament. . ."

!!!

fleiman

Grandmaster Tolush giving a simul at Leningrad Front, 1942.

batgirl

"Grandmaster Tolush giving a simul at Leningrad Front"

another !!!

goldendog

GM Fine shows a beauty how to castle with a sand dollar in 1945 Santa Monica.

spoiler1
anonym wrote:

 

(1960) Regina Fischer picketing the White House and demanding a public accounting of the American Chess Federation's finances and raising support for sending a U.S. team to the Chess Olympics in Leipzig, East Germany.

“...she did have an impact upon the chess establishment that can still be felt, and she may even have given our Olympic team a key push towards Leipzig.” (Bobby Fischer, Profile of a Prodigy by Frank Brady, pp.36-37


 Wasn't she ex-KGB?

batgirl

That's actress Jane Nigh cavorting with Reuben Fine at the 1945 Pan-Am games which were organized by Herman Steiner and held at Hollywood Atheletic Club.  Fine should have spent a little less time cavorting, since he came in second to Sammy Reshevsky.

goldendog
batgirl wrote:

That's actress Jane Nigh cavorting with Reuben Fine at the 1945 Pan-Am games which were organized by Herman Steiner and held at Hollywood Atheletic Club.  Fine should have spent a little less time cavorting, since he came in second to Sammy Reshevsky.


 Nice coverage in your link. I had read the Chess Review article but there is much more!

Loomis
batgirl wrote:

Fine should have spent a little less time cavorting, since he came in second to Sammy Reshevsky.


Some might say he should have spent more time cavorting since he still wound up playing in the tournament.

Does the picture of Fine in post #322 look like he has a huge head to anyone else? No wonder he was good at chess, lots of neurons in there no doubt.

billwall

Norman Whitaker's Alcatraz ID

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Botvinnik - Bronstein, World Championship, Moscow 1951

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Marcel Duchamp studying chess - 1952

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Chess in Stalag-17

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USSR Chess Team 1954 - Smyslov, Bronstein, Keres, Botvinnik

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The Marlboro man and chess - before he got lung cancer

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Bobby Fischer - 1956

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Boris Ivkov

phishcake5
goldendog wrote:

Reshevsky enters his first tournament, NY 1922, and claims his first GM scalp, Janowski, in a later round. Janowski is obscured in the middle on the other side of the table.

 


 Great photos goldnedog.  #375 is the photograph I mentioned earlier, he is playing Charles Jaffe here.  Although it was a relatively small six-master tournament Sammy's 2 1/2 out of 5 behind Edward Lasker and Jaffe but ahead of Janowski and Bigelow was still an impressive feat for an 11 year old.   

Particularly enjoyed "Reshevsky working the pocket set at the Palma Interzonal."  Wonderful composition the play between the three chess boards in the photograph is nice.

phishcake5

Albert Einstein on his 74th birthday photo Esther Bubley

Since we were talking about Edward Lasker (ok I was sort of) I thought the following story from The Life of a Chess Master by Dr. Jacques Hannak (Emanual Lasker bio) might fit somehow:  Einstein did play chess and was a good friend of Edward Lasker and gave Einstein an autographed copy of his book Go and Gomoku. Einstein returned the gift with an autographed copy of one of his papers on relativity. At some time later the Lasker book showed up in a used bookstore. Lasker was informed of the situation in which he replied that it was not a problem for he left the Einstein gift on the subway.

Edward Lasker

Tartakower and Edward Lasker

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Serious props to anyone who can conjure up photos of either GM Roman Dzindzihasvili or Vincent Livermore playing at Washington Square Park yo.

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