Douglas Griffin on X: Brussels, 1987. @JamesPlaskett, Mikhail Tal

Douglas Griffin on X: Problem-solving at the Moscow Interzonal, Sep. 1982: Miguel Najdorf, Tigran Petrosian, Aleksandrs Koblencs (trainer of Mikhail Tal), Isaac Romanov (historian), Iosif Dorfman, Viktor Kart (famous trainer of Lvov

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: Mikhail Tal v. Tigran Petrosian, 25th USSR-ch, Riga 1958, which featured the trademark positional exchange sacrifice by Petrosian, 31Rf4! Semyon Furman looks on. ('#Chess in the USSR', No.

Douglas Griffin on X: Legends of the chessboard: Mikhail Tal v. @Kasparov63, in play at (I think) the Moscow TV tournament, 1987. (Photo credit: I. Utkin.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Moscow, USSR. August 1983. Ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal is pictured in play in the traditional open blitz championship, held in Sokolniki Park. (📷: A. Fedorov, #chess /

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: Mikhail Tal and Iivo Nei playing blitz, Tallinn 1977. (Source: #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Mikhail Tal was born 87 years ago today. A reminder that translations of his annotations to a selection of his later games, as published in the contemporary Soviet #

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: Legendary grandmasters Mikhail Tal and David Bronstein. (Photo credit: B. Dolmatovsky, via #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal gives a simultaneous display in Philharmonic Square, Riga. 1980s. (Photo source: archive of the Latvian Sports Museum.) #chess @sovietvisuals / X

Douglas Griffin on X: A photo of my own, for a change: Mikhail Tal, in play v. Paul Motwani, Glenrothes (Scotland) 1988. #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Mikhail Tal (Latvia) v. Paul Keres (Estonia), 2nd USSR People's Spartakiad, Moscow, August 1959. (Source: TASS archive.) #chess / X