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

X에서 Douglas Griffin 님 : Moscow, USSR, 1981. The 7th World Champion, Vasily Smyslov is pictured with the young Sergey Tiviakov, future grandmaster, then a pupil of the 'Smyslov school'. (D. Donskoi

Douglas Griffin on X: Aleksandr Kotov, in play v. Grigory Levenfish, 17th USSR-ch, Moscow 1949. (Source: unknown.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: 40 years ago - World Champion Anatoly Karpov (USSR), pictured at the IBM International in Amsterdam, May 1981. (📷H. van Dijk (#1); M. Antonisse (#2, 3, 4) /

Douglas Griffin on X: Amsterdam, 11th June 1987. Ex-World Champion Anatoly Karpov is pictured in play v. his old rival Viktor Korchnoi in the 4th round of the Euwe Memorial tournament. (Photo

Douglas Griffin on X: Yerevan, May/June 1989. The Petrosian Memorial tournament. Veteran grandmaster Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia) faces Vladimir Akopian (USSR). (Photo source: personal archive of V. Akopian, via #chess

Douglas Griffin on X: Four photos of the 19-year-old Garry Kasparov, pictured in play at the FIDE Interzonal tournament in Moscow, September 1982. Kasparov won this event with 10/13 (+7,-0,=6), thereby qualifying

Douglas Griffin on X: The @FIDE_chess Candidates quarter-final between Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) & Tigran Petrosian (USSR), Velden am Wörthersee (Austria), March 1980. #1, #2 The match in progress; #3 Petrosian & wife

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

Douglas Griffin on X: Hastings, December 1971. Soviet GMs Viktor Korchnoi & Anatoly Karpov pose for a photo. They went on to share 1st-2nd place in the Hastings International, ahead of Mecking

Douglas Griffin on X: The programme for the 1974 FIDE Candidates' final between grandmasters Anatoly Karpov & Viktor Korchnoi. The match took place in the Hall of Columns of the House of

Douglas Griffin on X: Viktor Korchnoi faces 12-year-old Garry Kasparov in a clock simultaneous display, Leningrad 1975. (Source: unknown.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: The 13-year-old Garry Kasparov - already USSR Under- 18 champion - pictured in play at the Khalilbeyli Memorial tournament in Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan, May-June 1976. (Photo credit: V. Kalinin

Douglas Griffin on X: The 7th World #Chess Champion, Vasily Smyslov (1921-2010), pictured in play v. Evgeny Sveshnikov at the PCA rapid tournament in Moscow in April 1994. (📷A. Yakovlev, TASS.) /

Douglas Griffin on X: London, November 1983. At the FIDE Candidates' Semi-final match, Garry Kasparov faces Viktor Korchnoi; talking to Korchnoi is Svetozar Gligorić, one of the match arbiters. (Photo credit: unknown