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Close! You're in the right century.

No Gligoric. Sorry.

Ah, that's very comforting indeed!  Strange though, I've always felt like I was in the wrong one...

C'mon, it's gotta be him!...

(Hey, maybe it's one of those photographs before they doctored it, like some Stalinist thing...like Svetozar actually did play over here, but then Tito didn't want anybody else finding out about it...)

Arpad Elo ?

I like that guess!

Wow!  We have us a winner! That knife cuts sharp!

Wow, he was actually president?  I thought he was just some scientist guy they hired as a consultant or something. 

Well, if Gligoric had been a smidgeon older, a different nationality and ditched that flag, he might have been in the photo. 

That was  his brother Notepad Elo.

I only knew this photo of him :

So I guess the obvious question is:  what was Elo's Elo?

Depends what pool he was playing in. Geez,dont you read the forums?

From the first published elo's in Chess Life, Nov. 20, 1950 . . .

That's the only photo of Elo I've ever seen on the internet.  That's why I said you were sharp to guess correctly right of the bat.

Wow, Arpad was pretty good! 

OK, here's the key.  My images are a lot larger than what's show here, but I can't seem to get them to show larger here. 

I think the numbers then would correspond to larger numbers today, but I'm not a mathematician.

Aha, so Gligoric is Herman Steiner!

Oh great, I thought Barron was Horowitz... 

Here is a hard one. I'm sure everyone will recognize the dog; the kid is superfluous, but the elderly man was a well known player in his day, though perhaps not so well known today.  My hints are 1) that after Pillsbury' death, this man took over his chess column in the Philadelphia "Inquirer" and edited it from 1906-1940; 2) in 1892 he beat Emmanuel Lasker in this game (not a simul game):