Via chesspro.ru photo from Voronkov's archive with Boleslavsky, Bondarevsky, Tolush, Flohr. Levenfish, Bronstein, Kotov, Keres and at the all the way to the right Nikolai Zubarev. Smyslov, Lilienthal and Ragozin are missing here.

Via Delpher.nl Vrije Volk 1988: Yusupov, Malaniuk, Lputyan, Khalifman, Vladimirov, Makarichev & Pigusov. Tukmakov is missing, he had left for Biel before the last round. As the CSKA team captain had forgotten to communicate the line-up in time, there was a reglementary default on board 2 for CSKA Moscow.

Levenfish did not play in the Great Britain-USSR match London 1947 when he had warmly greeted an acquainted emigre there. Also, he was never to go abroad again. After Rotterdam 1988 Malaniuk was detained for 15 days as he had been seated at a closing banquet table with Korchnoi. #chess

Via Nationaal Archief

19-year-old Timman had just very convincingly won the Dutch blitz #chess championship 1971 and gets the trophy handed by Max Euwe.

Via Noord Hollands Archief; #TataSteelChess 1972

Dutch women champion 1968 Ingrid Jansen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_... passed away December 17th 2025, 80 years old. She was active end 1960s/beginning 1970s (under the name Ingrid Tuk), participated in 2 Olympiads.
schaakclubsteenwijk.blogspot.com/2025/12/in-m... A remarkable figure she was.

Ah, thanks, nice! Corus 2000 would be my guess (vs Short obviously).

Kramnik pictured in Linares; 1993 was his 1st tournament there. He has fond memories of Karpov's reaction (in a deadlost position, almost no time left) to an irregular pawn promotion by Kasparov.
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(Karpov actually tried 25.Qxe4!?😀: bsky.app/profile/tuur...

It is the story as told by Kasparov (Kasparov on Kasparov 1985-1993). The story goes on, perhaps the photo was taken a bit later? Curious about the clip!

Quite a moment to capture! When the arbiter brings a queen of the wrong color in an iconic game. Linares 1993. Via Carlos Gonzalez Ximenez.

Via Noord Hollands Archief

Great men smoke alike. Hoogovens 1968 #TataSteelChess #chess

"Wij; ons werk-ons leven" 1937-1938, no. 38, 22-10-1937

https://www.joodsmonument.nl/nl/page/116468/samuel-landau

On the left Susanna van Crefeld, fiancee of Salo Landau pictured during Euwe-Alekhine 1937. Together with Reshevsky Landau would report on this match. (In 1935 he had seconded Alekhine.) On the right Raisa Flohr. In 1938 Landau and Susanna got married. #chess

De Telegraaf 24-08-1937

Via chesspro.ru, like the remark about the resemblance

And here Reuben Fine is learning Dutch in the coastal town Bergen aan Zee just before his marriage with Emmy Keesing of whom once was said she looked like both Shirley Temple and Mae West

Via Estonian film database

Paul Keres. A lifelong career ahead second to none. #chess

Photo via gpntb.ru As quoted by Taimanov relating about Karpov's game in 1983

"Many can play the way Smyslov does, but winning that way can only he himself, because each of his moves is stronger than it seems". Euwe. #chess

1980 photo by Paul Huf

Very saddening news. Suddenly Jan Timman is no longer with us.

Mark Taimanov, a gifted boy #chess

Via het geheugen van Delpher

Lasker-Eliskases, 3rd International Moscow 1936 (1-0/44). The double-rounded eight-player tournament won by Capablanca, before Botvinnik. #chess

The rapid game in question (Giri-Kasimdzhanov) youtu.be/6cYZ7LCdF74?... was played in 2014, when Erdoğmuş was still🙃young, just having turned 3. More photos via chesspro.ru/_images/gal/... #TataSteelChess The pawn structure was revisited in Giri-Tari #Norwaychess 2023!

Vasily Ivanchuk in 1996. Via Noord Hollands Archief

Where did this 21.Qg7!! happen 30 years ago? #TataSteelChess #Chess

Via Noord Hollands Archief

Bouwmeester in 1954 Via Noord Hollands Archief

Portisch in 1965 Via Noord Hollands Archief

Pictured in 1990 #TataSteelChess: the winner (with Vasja Pirc) of Hoogovens 1954 Hans Bouwmeester at the piano, with Lajos Portisch, winner in 1965 (with Geller), 1972, 1975 & 1978 (four times!) singing. history.tatasteelchess.com/archive/tour...
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In Shakhmati Riga Tal reports ("...the sympathetic village of Wijk aan Zee"; ".. from the many tournament its' pleasant, almost homely atmosphere stands out") & gives 59.Rd7 c2 60.Rxa7 Ba5! 61.Rb7 Kd2 62.Rd7+ Kc3 but misses the quiet move 63.a7 c1Q 64.Kg2!! #chess
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Finally, after 57.Rb8 Bd6 58.Rd8 Bb4 59.Rb8 it was a draw. #TataSteelChess history would 've had been written differently had Ljubo found 59.Rd7! Bc5 (59...c2 60.Rxa7 Kb2 61.Rc7 Bc3 62.Rb7+!) 60.Rc7 Bd4 61.Rc4! Be5 62.Ke3 Neither did anyone notice later so it seems! #chess
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Via Nationaal Archief

Ljubojevic and Tal, 50 years ago, hitting off their last round game #TataSteelChess 1976. A decisive one for the 1st place that would last 59 moves, 8 hours and started at 9.30 AM (no adjournments this last round). #chess

Kurajica-Andersson, Wijk aan Zee 1976 (8): 33...Rxa4! #trademarkUlf Subsequently positions after 42...Bf4 and 58...e4 0-1. After round 7 Kurajica was leading the tournament with Ljubojevic.

Via NoordHollands Archief

Ulf Andersson, 50 years ago, participant Hoogovens #TataSteelchess 1976 #chess

From game 2 & 3 of the 10 games match Euwe-Alekhine 1926/27: should White exchange queens with 15.Qxd5 (game 2) and should Black with 29...Qg6+ #thebigdecision ? #chesspattern Alekhine analysed both games in his selected games 1924-1927 (На путях к высшим шахматным достижениям.) #chess

Back in the 1970s/80s Donner had, to put it mildly, no high hopes for the evolution of chesscomputers. In 1982 he easily beat "Belle" in an exhibition game. Position after 31.Tbc1, 1-0/(56) #chess

Correct! :) As is C! Kupreichik won this way vs Razuvaev, Dubna Young Masters 1970, where he tied 1st with Vaganian and...Tukmakov! Thus the latter had an easy game later that year in the USSR Ch 1970 vs. Doroshkevich, who successfully :) avoided the Grunfeld, but then fell for this trick too.

Did Chigorin😉play like: A: Lev Aronin B: Viktor Kupreichik C: Vladimir Tukmakov ?

Via Georgian archives

The teams in the Spartakiade of 1958 consisted of six men, two women and two juniors - a boy & a girl. 17-year-old Nona Gaprindashvili represented Georgia of course. #globalchessleague #TechMGCL #WomenInChess ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%...

Source unknown; via British chess forum

Poundering, discussing and contemplating tactics & strategy. Seirawan, Timman, Christiansen & Spassky. London Philips & Drew 1982 #chess

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Alekhine memorial Moscow 1975, Bohm-Spassky.
Spassky created a small positional masterpiece vs his own Leningrad variation, doing without his a8-rook most of the game; Bohm missed one chance to get back in the game: 24.Bd4! #centralavalanches #chesspattern #chess