Efim Geller, Nikolai Krogius & Boris Spassky, Reykjavík 1972.

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Lasker, Chigorin, Steinitz, and Pillsbury examining the Two Knights Defense.
Chigorin is also watching from the picture frame. St. Petersburg, 1895-6.

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Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp play chess on the roof of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris in a scene in René Clair’s 1924 film, Entr’acte.
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The U.S. Team at Folkestone 1933. (l-r) Dake, Kashdan and his wife, Simonson, Marshall, and Fine.

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Morphy making a move against Louis Paulsen during the First American Chess Congress (New York, 1857).

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Fischer holds out his fists to let Larsen pick who has white for the first game of the candidates match, 1971.

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Bent Larsen vs Milan Matulovic from Palma de Mallorca Interzonal 1970.

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11-year old Samuel Reshevsky playing in the 1922 New York Masters tournament. (ref: This Crazy World of Chess, by Larry Evans, page 209)

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Arnold Denker meets Sammy Reshevsky in the 1946 US Championship.

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Reshevsky watches Pinkus, his girl on his lap, during the 1946 US Championships.

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