Remembering the great Viktor Korchnoi (1931-2016), who died ten years ago today.
Pictured here in play v. Anatoly Karpov in the World Championship match in Merano, 1981.
(📷: J. Cooke / Corbis.) #chess
Have being racing time.. racing against all the inner voices..
At the end of all that.. I'll achieve what i planned for my future prime whether circumstances helped me or not
Remembering grandmaster Paul Keres (1916-1975), whose sudden death 51 years ago today shocked the chess world.
Pictured here at Hoogovens, Beverwijk in 1964, a tournament which he won together with his Estonian colleage Iivo Nei.
(📷: https://t.co/djJ1PufDtO.)
Július Kozma (1 June 1929 – 26 November 2009) was a Czechoslovak chess master (IM). He won at Bratislava 1957 and won the 1967 Czechoslovak Chess Championship. He represented Czechoslovakia in the Chess Olympiads.
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Moscow, October 1973. The 41st USSR Championship final. Ex-World Champion Boris Spassky (who would go on to win the event) considers his move, as grandmaster and future World Champion Anatoly Karpov looks on.
(📷: A. Yakovlev, TASS.) #chess
San Remo, January 1930. Two great names at the chessboard: Savielly Tartakower & Akiba Rubinstein.
Evidently a posed photo; in their encounter from the tournament itself, Rubinstein had the white pieces.
(📷: O. Vianello, via https://t.co/4kibQMmv9O.) #chess
من أجمل النعم هو رجوع احساس العيد لي في آخر سنتين بعد اختفائه قبلاً لسبب مجهول.. استشعار الأعياد شئ جميل 🤍
اتمنى اننا ما نفقد إستشعار نِعم الله علينا ابداً
45 years ago today - Anatoly Karpov faces Jan Timman in the penultimate (10th) round of the IBM tournament in Amsterdam. A draw in this encounter allowed Timman to win the event, a ½-point ahead of the World Champion.
(📷: R. Bogaerts / ANEFO, via https://t.co/AtUKwRfY1R.) #chess
Moscow, 5th December 1976. The 44th USSR Championship final, Round 6. Viktor Kupreichik (seated) feels the pressure in his game v. World Champion Anatoly Karpov, as the latter looks on.
(📷: V. Savostianov / TASS.) #chess