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Mar 19, 2013
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#1065
I was asked to post this photo from the 1945 Pan Am games in Hollywood. How many of those pictured can you identify?
Mar 19, 2013
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#1066
Well, being a movie fan, I see Carmen Maranda (please excuse spelling) overlooking what may be a game at the Hollywood Canteen(?). She was a hot tamale back in the day. Did she ever play chess like Bogey? Or just an onlooker?
I think I know who a couple of these are (& to my everlasting shame I can't place the player with the black pieces): kibbitzer with pipe, Herman Steiner; player with white pieces, Hector Rossetto.
Mar 20, 2013
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#1069
I think it is Hector Rossetto playing Reuben Fine. I can identify Isaac Kashdan (with his head turned) to the left of and behind Carmen Miranda and Herbert Seidman to the right and the man sitting behind the board is Major J.J. Arauza of Mexico. Some others look familiar, but I can't place them.
The caption says it all.
batgirl wrote:
I was asked to post this photo. The subject, who is at a chessboard, is the world champion of a different board game. Does anyone know him?
Nope. But I want to know. Will you post the answer?
When the great Reuben Fine died, Chess Life made sure he received some tribute in their magazine.
I always liked this cover, and I especially liked the in-action photo of Fine playing Najdorf in the 1949 NY tournament. They're both in typical poses with their typical expressions, and you can see they have been sustaining themselves with coffee, pretzels, and chocolate candies. Papa Hemmingway observes their game from the wall.
Mar 21, 2013
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#1076
Very cool! Coffee, pretzels & candy are good in any decade. But what strikes me most is that suit & tie were the norm back then. Of course fashion has changed. I'd like to see Joan Rivers do a fashion review of a typical weekend tournament now. Sure, most of us guys are slobs. But thank heaven for the ladies at the top level.
Side note. Only a few persisted with suit & tie. During the 90s I would often see Miles Ardaman at tournaments wearing same. But the last few times I saw him; I see he has relaxed his fashion a bit.
So, any photos of "proper fashion" at the chessboard in the 21st century?
Mar 21, 2013
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#1078
The horse is a chess-player whisperer; note Fischer's calm demeanour.
Hamrammr wrote:
Bobby Fischer in Iceland 1972. A photo by Harry Benson.
awesome pic, i think horses understand intuitivly who is a nice guy. You know i was once wiht a colleague feeding horses with apples and stuff, you know we both had food in the jackets as well, and they destroyed his jacket but not mine. That was so funny, man horses are great. See that picture shows what a nice person Bobby Fisher was.
paulgottlieb wrote:
No one ever seems to mention it, but judging from his behavior--how sensitive he was about lighting and noise, and his incredible ability to concentrate--Fischer seemed to fall somewhere on the autism spectrum. It's not that unusual for someone like that, who is very uncomfortable with too much human intimacy, to love animals
but he could also be a regurlar healthy guy who just cared about lightning and noise... I mean he also cared for the pay of the chessplayers, no one would call him autistic for that though.
Never did i read a chess psychologist who said that was crazy, weird when you think about it.
Especially Black Draughts.