Greatest Chess Photos

Alexei Suetin (1926-2001)

Edmar Mednis (1937-2002)

great blog on gm's

Reinfeld--remember him?-- sits in the front row, second from the left, next to a young John Collins. If Fischer had a mentor, Collins was it. Both pics from 1938.

Do you know where was the wonderful Reinfeld-Collins picture taken?

1938 March, US Championship prelims, section C (of 3 apparently), played at West Side YMCA. Reinfeld won the 10-player section with a score of 7-2. Collins was 3rd-4th with 5-1/2--2-1/2.

edit: I forgot to be explicit. NYC of course. The other sections were at the Manhattan and the Marshall.

wish i could have been there!

awesome pics you guys/girls

Petrosian looks upon the table, pieces, and clock used by Capablanca and Lasker in 1921.

"1938 March, US Championship prelims, section C (of 3 apparently), played at West Side YMCA."

Thanks!

Damn it Spock! I'm only a country doctor!

Fischer v Korchnoi

mickey adams...

a very old photo...

gumpty, I believe Staunton is about to pull Morphy out of that huge topper.

Bobby Darin

"Musician and actor Bobby Darin (1936-1973) was a chess player and was about to sponsor the richest chess tournament ever, the Bobby Darin International Chess Classic, before he died during a heart operation in Los Angeles. Bobby explained chess moves during his Bobby Darin show. He was playing chess just before he went into surgery. He was born Robert Walden Cassotto. His wife, Sandra Dee, was also a chess player. Bobby Darin's son, Dodd, runs a chess publishing house."--California Celebrities Who Play(ed) Chess by Bill Wall

See another great photo of Bobby promoting chess on the Bobby Darin Show in 1973 with audio of him solving a chess problem composed by Isaac Kashdan:::

http://www.bobbydarin.net/bdchess.html

"This is my second book for Summit Publishing. I am very happy to be associated with this fine publishing firm and its president, Dodd M. Darin."--from the Preface, Strategic Chess, Mastering the Closed Game by Edmar Mednis, New York, 1992

I remember that ad in Chess Life & Review in 1973. The Bobby Darin Invitational with $25000 (then bumped to 50k?)  prize money. He and Kashdan standing over a chess board. Maybe Edmondson too.

I am about to start scanning my old mags for pics here and will get to the Darin one.

Some great players of chess.

History of chess.

In history of india the battle between kings were like chess.