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Former chess-player (1979-1995).
Writer on Soviet chess history; translator of Russian-language chess literature. Published by @chessinformant1 & @QualityChess.
dgriffinchess.wordpress.com

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The artwork for the 1st edition of a famous book - Mark Taimanov's work on the Nimzo-Indian Defence, published in Moscow in 1956. It subsequently ran to several editions and was published in many languages.

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Have already mentioned the work of artist Galina Satonina (1905-2000) on my blog post on Levenfish:
https://t.co/JiJENlCStT.
The RIA Novosti Archives include reproductions of more of her chess work. These two are from 1966:
'Victory & Defeat'
'Stalemate'.

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"History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes".

Flohr (USSR) v. Horowitz (USA), radio match 1945.
Dubov (Russia) v. Xiong (USA), Online Olympiad final, 2001.

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Some 1st May covers from the magazine '#Chess in the USSR' in the 1950s.

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Via https://t.co/vz9S17A0HN, some lithograph portraits of famous masters, by the artist David Friedmann.
Akiba Rubinstein.
Emanuel Lasker
Efim Bogoljubow
Max Euwe
You can read more about the artist here:
https://t.co/roaW55hWRL (h/t for the link).

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The cover of '#Chess Life & Review', November 1969 - 'World Junior Champion Anatoly Karpov (USSR)'.
(Via the recently-digitised archive.)

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Amsterdam, 13th July 1971. Paul Keres is pictured in play in the opening round of the IBM tournament.
(Photo: J. Evers / ANEFO, via https://t.co/PlhPbKfF78.)

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Viktor Korchnoi v. Paul Keres, 1st round, 33rd USSR-ch final, Tallinn, 22nd November 1965. In the diagram position Black played 28...Rb2! (0-1, 40). (Photo source: https://t.co/WA8YIngIcx.)

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