Douglas Griffin on X: Karpov-Korchnoi, 18th match-game, FIDE Candidates' final, Moscow 1974. (Source: TASS, photographer: V. Savostianov.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Moscow, 2nd August 1988. The 55th USSR Championship; the 7th-round meeting of Anatoly Karpov & Garry Kasparov. Their game was drawn; the two great rivals went on to

Douglas Griffin on X: Moscow, September 1966. The team championship of the Voluntary Sports Societies of the USSR. On board 1 of the 5th-round match between 'Spartak' and 'Avangard', Tigran Petrosian faces

Douglas Griffin on X: Some portraits from the Hoogovens tournament at Wijk aan Zee, January 1968, by the Dutch photographer E. Koch (ANEFO). Viktor Korchnoi & Mikhail Tal (USSR), Lajos Portisch (Hungary)

Douglas Griffin on X: Tigran Petrosian, Viktor Korchnoi & Evgeny Vasiukov analysing the opening game of Tal-Botvinnik World Championship match, Moscow 1961. (Photographer: unknown, via ITAR-TASS archive.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Mikhail Tal, pictured in play v. Garry Kasparov in the 5th round of the Moscow Interzonal tournament, 5th September 1982. The game, an early example of the 5.Bg5

Douglas Griffin on X: Moscow, 15th December 1971. Leonid Stein is pictured in play v. Anatoly Karpov in the 15th round of the Alekhine Memorial tournament. These players shared 1st-2nd place in

Douglas Griffinστο X: Ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal (b. Riga, 1936; d. Moscow, 1992), pictured at Wijk aan Zee, January 1988. (📷: #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Via two photos by B. Dolmatovsky of Garry Kasparov, pictured in play via his famous victory against Vassily Ivanchuk in the 2nd round of the 55th USSR

Douglas Griffin on X: Moscow, 16th September 1974. The opening game of the FIDE Candidates' final match between Viktor Korchnoi & Anatoly Karpov, which took place in the Hall of Columns of