Samuel Reshevsky and Bobby Fischer with Puerto Rican actor and director José Ferrer in Los Angeles in mid-August 1961 (AP archive).
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🔗 Olimpiu G. Urcan (@olimpiuurcan)
The 1980 European Team Championship, Skara (Sweden) - round 3 (played 21st January). On Board 8 in the match between the Sweden & the USSR, Nils-Gustaf Renman faces the 16-year-old Garry Kasparov.
(📷: H. Svedbark, via http://tabyschack.se.)
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(📷: H. Svedbark, via http://tabyschack.se.)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
Unity Chess Club
The 1980 European Team Championship, Skara (Sweden) - round 3 (played 21st January). On Board 8 in the match between the Sweden & the USSR, Nils-Gustaf Renman faces the 16-year-old Garry Kasparov. (📷: H. Svedbark, via http://tabyschack.se.) 🔗 Douglas…
renman_kasparov_1980.pgn
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Buenos Aires, 14th November 1978. In the opening round of the international tournament sponsored by the newspaper Clarín, grandmaster Oscar Panno (Argentina) faces ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov (USSR).
(Photo: http://www.lanacion.com.ar.) #chess
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(Photo: http://www.lanacion.com.ar.) #chess
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Unity Chess Club
Buenos Aires, 14th November 1978. In the opening round of the international tournament sponsored by the newspaper Clarín, grandmaster Oscar Panno (Argentina) faces ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov (USSR). (Photo: http://www.lanacion.com.ar.) #chess 🔗 Douglas…
panno_smyslov_1978.pgn
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A photo of the young Bobby Fischer; according to the archive, it is from c. 1957.
(📷Everett Collection.)
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(📷Everett Collection.)
🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)
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Another OTB event with some big names is starting! The 3rd Salamanca Chess Festival includes a rapid tournament (40 min. + 5 sec.) with Veselin Topalov, David Anton, and Alexei Shirov as the top seeds.
https://www.chess.com/events/2021-magistral-de-salamanca
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Veselin Topalov tops an interesting field for the University of Salamanca Masters!
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University of Salamanca Masters 2021
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First day of Salamanca University #chess festival. Veselin Topalov and Nurgul Salimova leading with perfect score 2 out of 2. https://salamancachessfestival.com