Greatest Chess Photos

So Javan, how are you gonna get batgirl back here?

yes, WE WANT BATGIRL BACK !!!

No photos now.

Come back batgirl! We love you.  We will marry you!
(If that doesn't work we may as well give up.)

No, no Batgirl! Do not stop sending these wonderful photos and information.  I have thoroughly enjoyed what you contribute. Those that find this thread boring do not need to read it.  Duh! This is one of my most enjoyable threads.  And I have always found anything you contribute, whether in the threads or in your blog, interesting.  Please do not stop. 

What, exactly, is a "Great Chess Photo?"

To me it's one that is either historically important or one that is generally unknown.  Photos tend to dwindle down to the same old pictures, usually of famous masters such as Tal or Fischer.  I like photos that border unusual, as well as mostly unknown.  Those from over a century ago are generally set due to the relative limited number of photographs. So, when any new 19th century chess-related photo appears, I tend to sit up straight and pay attention. More early 20th century photos are floating about and the possibility to see something fresh still exists.  That's pretty much my aim. . . to give something most folks haven't seen, or to show a different aspect of chess.  This might be boring to some, but I find such photos fascinating and sometimes even enlightening.  I have always approached writing, and publishing in general, with the idea that if something interests me, it must interest someone else.  For example, if anyone want to see an awesome game of speed chess (rapid transit - 20sec/move) which was played waaaay back in 1933 with living pieces, check my latest blog entry.  (The event is described, the game's in a viewer.)

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jpd303 is absolutely correct and impressively so . That is Mrs Reshevsky and their daughter Sylvia.

The man with young Mark Taimanov is posting #900 is the great Czech player Salo Flohr.

Here is Salo Flohr with his wife in 1936-

Now...

Who is this well-known British player?

Thx batgirl.

She digs you man...

Yeah, that is what happens when you trade shirts after the game.

SCORE i think i remember misses reshevsky from a "chess life" article a while back....good to know the memory banks still work sometimes :D and i think these photos are great... over the years this is hands down my favorite thread on this site every new post adds a little more to my collective chess database....aaaaannnywho thanks again to the people that contribute

Not sure whether this one has been posted yet... and unfortunately it's an etching by Emma Lowenstramm rather than a photo. Still... it might be of some historical interest.

Oh yeah, the Hitler one (if I'm remembering right).

Yeah... Hitler playing White against Lenin, Vienna 1909.

Damn!  The irony is I thought he looked more familiar to me than Taimanov (lol).

I will say that limey is C H O D Alexander.

Wow!  Excellent eye!  That's truly Conel Hugh O'Donel.

Now, here is a photo of a young, soon to be famous chessplayer, that was published in Montreal's "Le Monde Illustre" in 1893.

Schlechter?  Don't know why that'd be in Montreal though...

Well, that was off-the-wall. . . but not quite correct.

Okay, then I guess Biyiasas is a lot older than I thought.

I was going by Carl's floppy ears btw...