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      Who is this chess player?

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      Another great picture from Ken Tait! Can you figure out who this famous chess is? Posted by Picasa

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      19 Comments

      1. dcax Reply
        December 17, 2006 at 2:10 pm

        Isn’t he Kortchnoi?

        In a young age?

        If not, i’m sorry for my mistake ;oX

      2. Anonymous Reply
        December 17, 2006 at 3:16 pm

        I think he is Korchnoi or maybe Polugaievsky

      3. Andorrano Reply
        December 17, 2006 at 4:16 pm

        I have begun to look for famous players’ old pictures…. and it has been easy to find it, because their clothes were of the years 50 and then there was few.
        I also think that it is Kortchnoi,and the picture it is of 1955.I have a very similar picture in my chessbase 9.0 and I think that I see the same plant to the left and the same table and he also is black and the same suit, the same hairstyle… I believe that I have in my computer a picture of that same game.
        He is Kortchnoi.

      4. Anonymous Reply
        December 17, 2006 at 4:16 pm

        Yeah, looks like a young Viktor Lvovich.

      5. John Sharp Reply
        December 17, 2006 at 6:16 pm

        Definitely Korchnoi

      6. Anonymous Reply
        December 17, 2006 at 7:38 pm

        Leonid Stein

      7. Anonymous Reply
        December 17, 2006 at 7:53 pm

        try this

        http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.professorchess.com/biographies/images_db/korchnoi_0.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.professorchess.com/biographies/korchnoi.htm&h=299&w=260&sz=38&hl=en&start=17&tbnid=YWw3harOC-L0xM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dkorchnoi%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG

        hope it works.

      8. Anonymous Reply
        December 17, 2006 at 8:43 pm

        I say he is the infamous GM Ljubinich

      9. poisoned pawn Reply
        December 17, 2006 at 9:29 pm

        It is Kortschnoi – maybe 1952 when he reached USSR championship finale for the first time

      10. Anonymous Reply
        December 18, 2006 at 12:31 am

        HAL

      11. Alfil del Rey Reply
        December 19, 2006 at 10:51 am

        Leonid Stein?

      12. fargo Reply
        December 20, 2006 at 3:07 am

        Bobby Fischer?

      13. Anonymous Reply
        December 20, 2006 at 3:11 am

        It must be Richard Nixon

      14. wendy Reply
        December 20, 2006 at 3:14 am

        Could it be Martina Navratilova before the operation?

      15. Anonymous Reply
        December 20, 2006 at 3:48 am

        Saddam before he grew a beard?

      16. linda Reply
        December 20, 2006 at 3:48 am

        I bet that it’s Janet Reno!

      17. georgey_porgy Reply
        December 20, 2006 at 3:50 am

        Aha! That player is none other than Osama bin Laden!

      18. Anonymous Reply
        December 20, 2006 at 3:51 am

        Karl Marx?

      19. Anonymous Reply
        December 20, 2006 at 3:52 am

        Edward Lasker?

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