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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Stein vs Geller, Spassky vs Bronstein, Kortschnoi vs Kholomov, Moscow 1963.

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The 1936 Nottingham Chess Congress participants (group photo)

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17th Chess Olympiad, 1966 Havana, USSR Winners.

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Capablanca at the age of 18 playing Brackett. New York, 20 December 1906.

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Browne (front left) analyzing with Karpov and Tal. (Las Palmas 1977) Browne had missed a forced win!

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Bobby Fischer giving a simultaneous exhibition in March 1964.

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This day in #chesshistory of 1985, the world chess champion Anatoli Karpov, visiting Barcelona, played seven simultaneous games with players from the Catalan Chess Federation.

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“You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.”

José Raúl Capablanca, World Chess Champion in 1921-1927, was born on November 18, 1888.

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Emanuel Lasker was born on December 24, 1868. The longest-reigning world chess champion, he retained his title for 26 years and 337 days from 1894 to 1921.

He was also a mathematician, philosopher, and excelled in other games like bridge or Go.

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Louis Paulsen was famous for his blindfold performances. His first effort of that kind stunned the public in New York in 1857, when he took on then-unprecedented five games simultaneously. A year later he extended the record to 14 games. #ChessHistory

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Found a box with (analogue) pictures from the Corus tournament 2001. Watch them on my Flickr page. https://flickr.com/photos/vanreem/albums/72157718033629526 #TataSteelChess #chess #chesshistory

In this video, filmed during the third edition of the Asian Cities Chess Championship (Hong Kong, February/March 1981) you can see Liu Wenzhe in action playing for Bejing.
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Today marks 92 years since the birthday of Tigran Petrosian.

Dubbed "Iron Tigran" for his impenetrable and cautious playing style, the 9th World Chess Champion (1963-1969) was born on June 17, 1929.

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