Douglas Griffin on 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: Wijk aan Zee, 19th January 1968. Viktor Korchnoi faces Mikhail Tal in what proved to be the last of eight(!) successive victories at the start of this 15-round

Douglas Griffin on X: Wijk aan Zee, 16th January 1976. Pictured in play before their encounter in the opening round of the Hoogovens tournament - ex -World Champion Mikhail Tal (USSR) & Swedish

Douglas Griffin on X: Hoogovens, Wijk aan Zee, 23rd January 1973. The 7th-round encounter between Mikhail Tal (USSR) & Hein Donner (Netherlands) is in progress. The ex-World Champion won this game in

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: Reykjavík World Cup, October 1988 - the 12th-round pairing of Boris Spassky and @Kasparov63. The game was drawn in 19 moves; in the post-game analysis, the players are

Douglas Griffin على X: Mikhail Botvinnik & Mikhail Tal, World Championship Return Match, Moscow 1961. (Photo credit: unknown.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Surely one of the greatest photos of Mikhail Tal. Leipzig, 28th October 1960. The 1st round of the 14th Olympiad finals, the match USSR v. Bulgaria. The then-World

Douglas Griffin on X: 50 years ago this month - Mikhail Tal and Viktor Korchnoi, at Wijk aan Zee, January 1968. Korchnoi won this tournament by a huge margin, finishing 1st with

Douglas Griffin on X: Mikhail Tal (USSR) v. Theodor Ghiţescu (Romania), 14th Olympiad, Leipzig 1960. (Source: unknown.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Wijk aan Zee, 16th January 1976. Pictured in play before their encounter in the opening round of the Hoogovens tournament - ex -World Champion Mikhail Tal (USSR) & Swedish grandmaster Ulf Andersson. ( Photo credit: R. Mieremet

Douglas Griffin on X: Baku, 11th December 1961. The 16th round of the 28th USSR Championship. Ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal (Riga) makes his opening move v. Bukhuti Gurgenidze (Tbilisi). Tal won the

Douglas Griffin on X: Tigran Petrosian, Mikhail Tal and Rafael Vaganian at the 43rd USSR Championship (Yerevan, 1975). (Photo: #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Wijk aan Zee, 19th January 1982. Ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal (USSR) is pictured before play v. Vlastimil Hort (ČSSR) in the 4th round of the Hoogovens tournament. (Photo