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🔰Unity Chess Magazine🔰
January, 2021
Volume 24
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January, 2021
Volume 24
Two portraits of the 2nd World Chess Champion, Emanuel Lasker (b. Barlinek, Poland, 1868; d. New York, USA, 1941).
#1 1910 (📷Hulton Archive)
#2 1925 (📷Ullstein Bild).
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#1 1910 (📷Hulton Archive)
#2 1925 (📷Ullstein Bild).
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Boris Vsevolodovich Ignatovich (1899-1976)
The chess tournament, c. 1935
USSR
What an incredible photo; even though you can't see the faces, you can feel the intensity of the moment, everyone is analyzing the game!
🔗 Diego Rasskin Gutman (@drasskin)
The chess tournament, c. 1935
USSR
What an incredible photo; even though you can't see the faces, you can feel the intensity of the moment, everyone is analyzing the game!
🔗 Diego Rasskin Gutman (@drasskin)
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100 Years 100 Brilliancies! - 1
“Unlike other games in which lucre is the end and aim, [chess] recommends itself to the wise by the fact that its mimic battles are fought for no prize but honor. It is eminently and emphatically the philosopher’s game.”
🔸 Paul Morphy
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🔸 Paul Morphy
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Amsterdam, 15th July 1985. Pictured at the drawing of lots ceremony for the forthcoming OHRA tournament, grandmaster Jan Timman (Netherlands) and the reigning World Champion, Anatoly Karpov (USSR).
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Los Angeles, 1963. Gregor and Jacqueline Piatigorsky, posing here with Keres and Petrosian, organized the first of the two chess tournaments that bear their name.
The second "Piatigorsky Cup" would take place three years later, in 1966.
🔗 David Llada ♞ (@davidllada)
The second "Piatigorsky Cup" would take place three years later, in 1966.
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Unity Chess Club
The FIDE Candidates quarter-final between Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) & Tigran Petrosian (USSR), Velden am Wörthersee (Austria), March 1980. #1, #2 The match in progress; #3 Petrosian & wife take a stroll; #4 Korchnoi on skiis. (📷P. Jarnoux / Paris…
Some more scenes from the match.
#1 The 7th match-game in progress.
#2 Korchnoi at the board.
#3 Petrosian at the board.
#4 The ex-World Champion takes a stroll.
Pretty remarkable that a place the size of Velden was able to stage it...
(📷P. Jarnoux / Paris Match)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
#1 The 7th match-game in progress.
#2 Korchnoi at the board.
#3 Petrosian at the board.
#4 The ex-World Champion takes a stroll.
Pretty remarkable that a place the size of Velden was able to stage it...
(📷P. Jarnoux / Paris Match)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
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March 28th, 2021
Mega & Team
🥇IM Yoseph Theofilius Taher
March 28th, 2021
Mega & Team
🥇IM Yoseph Theofilius Taher
An exhibition of 'living chess' in front of ~8,000 spectators in Palace Square, St Petersburg, 24th July 1924. The 'pieces' were men from the Red Fleet (White) & the Red Army (Black), respectively conducted by local masters Pyotr Romanovsky & Ilya Rabinovich.
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)