here is tal from a similar angle around the time you suggest photo #560 was taken. they look similar but im not sure if thats tal in 560...i would like to know though if anyone has a definative answer
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I think it is. Moving with the left hand and I can maybe detect the abnormal right hand. Same nose. Meh.
that is tal. look at the ear and look at the eyebrows, the nose!
I agree it looks like it's tal.
Mar 27, 2009
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this is going to sound totally stupid, but I was looking at the Ray charles game thinking wow hes doing pretty well and then it hit me as I scrolled down...for a moment I forgot he was blind. I wonder who taught him to play?!
MsCloyescapade wrote:
this is going to sound totally stupid, but I was looking at the Ray charles game thinking wow hes doing pretty well and then it hit me as I scrolled down...for a moment I forgot he was blind. I wonder who taught him to play?!
I think he taught himself. He did it while in rehab, and thereafter chess was a habit but not drugs.
tal it is then, i wish i could see the right hand to be certain...
Frank Poole vs. HAL 9000
ndrw: Is that position from the Morphy game where he sacs his queen on f3? I forget who it's against, but that looks like the same setup where white played c3?? and Morphy locked in his pieces with ...Qd3.
According to several sources, it seems that Kubrick used this game (Roesch vs. Schlage, 1910) as the chess game in 2001.
Maybe Alfred hitchcock playing in Tal game sent in by Goldendog 
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I am new to this site - I am usually on various comic sites - and it is funny how the different communities can be so similar. This could be easily translated into the comic world as a "greatest cover" or "best fight" thread.
I have relly enjoyed thread - thanks. NIt never occored to me that iconic chess images even existed.
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A large and compreensive essay (in two parts) about the subject of the first post on this thread (Alekhine´s death) was recently released by the Canadian GM Kevin Spragett on his blog http://kevinspraggett.blogspot.com/2009/03/part-1-alekhines-death.html
This may have been posted or it might already be well known, but I only recently came across it.
A bunch of photos of the old masters:
http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/historical_photographs.htm
Emanuel Lasker playing golf
Capablanca’s grave in the Colón Cemetery, Havana
Richard Réti
Apr 3, 2009
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The title of this thread "Greatest Chess Photos" was terrific idea but somehow people are confusing it with "Any Old Chess Photo That Might Be Of Interest". Aren't chess players supposed to be smart?
EnterTheDragon wrote:
The title of this thread "Greatest Chess Photos" was terrific idea but somehow people are confusing it with "Any Old Chess Photo That Might Be Of Interest". Aren't chess players supposed to be smart?
Well, that boat has sailed irrevocably, as I knew it must. I started the thread and even I posted some trivial ones. I must admit, some posters thought it was an opportunity to get a big pic of their favorite modern player up or to post a shot of an old woodprint or include a long foreign language article on a trivial, barely chess-associated subject. Nevertheless, the great shots are still there as well as the good ones.
I think I am out of great photos but as soon as I mozy over to the scanner I will have a few more good ones.
Unidentified photo but definitely looks like Tal on the left. Don't know who the other player is. Later 1950s--possibly 1960s I suppose as he doesn't look very young and also not so old.