Greatest Chess Photos

Keep em coming, I like almost all of them if they are chess related

19 year old Fischer, already a few times US champion, on the subway.

Does anyone know if Fischer ever drove, owned a car ?  I understand many in NYC never drive ? 

 I can't recall an instance at the moment of Fischer getting behind a wheel.

On the other hand, Ed Lasker's account of Reshevsky, young and so small, pleading to let him drive is funny. I believe he finally got a chance at steering. Later on, he told some adult, a patron or organizer I think, that he "drove only Dusenburgs."

I think it was a Doozy. Anyway, a charming story.

In an earlier post we saw Spassky revisiting the table and pieces he and Fischer used in 1972. Here's Fischer doing the same. No pieces though.

Hahahahah. The IBM box needs to break open and have a copious amount of little chess players scramble out.

One of the most interesting topics since long : history of (modern) chess in front of us : mixed feelings......

I hope that photos of big russian tournaments at the grass roots(?) level are posted here.

Capablanca and his second wife, Olga. Both looking very stylish, Olga strikes a pose.

Took me a minute to understand that the magic eye revealed a 3-d chess set.  Nice conceit.

That yoke nearly blinded me :)!

Here's Capablanca age 18 playing Brackett. New York, 20 December 1906.

wow how freakin cool the photos are awesome thanks the chess set looks like a magnetic set but on like a cloth type board cool

ive also seen sets where the pieces plug into the board as well

Nice! Capa's wife looks very sexy

cool pix

I have read that Capa was quite the lady's man.

Korchnoi vs Brown, blitz match Lone Pine, CA 1979

Update: The unidentified opponent of Tal's in #557 is Szabados. He and Tal played two games as part of a Riga-Venice team match Oct 31- Nov 1 in 1957. So the mystery is no mystery any longer.

Edward Winter's Chess Notes has a recent entry with a similar photograph and provides the details noted above. Great minds think alike etc.. 

Great thread.  Sorry I couldn't resist this photo.