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

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: 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: Hidden away in the Dutch regional photo archives: some shots of the young @vishy64theking in action at Wijk aan Zee, v. Vitaly Tseshkovsky & Viktor Korchnoi, in 1989

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

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: At the FIDE Interzonal in Moscow, 1982. Round 11, 21st September. Guillermo García Gonzáles faces ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal. The Cuban grandmaster started this event with 6½/8. (Photo

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

X 上的Douglas Griffin：“40 years ago, the World Championship match between Anatoly Karpov & Viktor Korchnoi was under way. One of my earliest # chess memories is reading the score of the 1st

Douglas Griffin on X: USSR, April 1975. The newly-crowned World Champion Anatoly Karpov is pictured at the chessboard with his father, Evgeny. (📷D. Donskoi, Novosti Press.) #chess / X