Greatest Chess Photos

is it just me or does the guy above Spasski look like that actor michelle picolini or whatever his name is. Yes i should probably recognize him on the pic but to my shame i dont.

np Tetsui.

The guy above Spassky?  The great Soviet champion and opening specialist, GM Lev Polugaevsky.

Here's a very unusual, though historically interesting, chess club, of the kind we'll hopefully never see again:

This photo was taken in 1890, at the 3rd U.S. Chess Association Congress (equivalent to the U.S. Open) in St. Louis to be precise (won by Showalter).  On the left is Jackson Whipps Showalter and on the right is Solomon Lipschutz (who finished third out of seven):

Here's a good article on Showalter http://www.chess.com/article/view/jackson-w-showalter-1859-1935

Here's a similar tableau, with Showalter and Pillsbury. Tournament unknown.

In 1163, is that an Evans Gambit on the board?

This is the gravesite of Capablanca

Greatest photos of Chess Watches:

and the most famous chess watch of all, Morphy's watch: HERE and HERE.

Middle-left is rather nice. I don't wear a watch but I'd be willing to make an exception for that one.

Still carryin' the ol' pocket watch around, eh?  Do you ever screw up, put your watch in your eye and look at your monocle to see what time it is?

That dial and the one on the bottom look as if they were inspired by Morphy's watch.

Omega. Nice watch!

Cripes! the blackguard's been spying on me!

This thread is good.  Well done Goldendog.

Maybe this one has already been posted, but this thread is so popular there's too many pages to go thru now, so here's a picture of my namesake that is definitely atypical of his more mature images and is the most dapper version of him I've ever seen along with a Spanish version of the Nimzovitch we're used to seeing

We saw Chess Watches, now let's look at a potpourri of Chess-themed Clocks:

There is a great short story by fantasy writer Fritz Leiber called "Midnight By the Morphy Watch". I never knew there was an actual watch.

Yes there's an actual Morphy watch.  The story of the watch is in one of the link's above.