some chess pictures

Two pictures from the American Chess Bulletin, 1907:

(Lasker and Marshall)

And one not from the American Chess Bulletin:

And one, non-chess related, I just like:

For the record, only two of the photos contain real chess masters.

Body language for the Capablanca photo says everything. His whole body says "Yeah, I got this... easy"

Lasker's preparing to face Marshall  unaware that he just needs to glance upwards to see his real competition!

There is that movie, Chess Fever, playing on this. One woman doesn't like chess because her husband plays too much, so she goes out somewhere and meet Capablanca, going to a tournament (she follows him) and then she finds chess interesting in the end.

Played by himself, I think. It's on Youtube right now.

It's funny how you can go to some foreign countries, set up a chess board, and soon somebody will join you, and you can instantly connect with the other person even though the two of you do not speak the same language.

It's the magic of chess.

'Chess Fever is great!! Go watch it.