...this two chess enthusiast on the picture?

Isn't that Garry Kasparov and Mikhail Botvinnik?

I wonder if Garry wore those plaid trousers to a match? They're very distracting!

To tell you the truth, I don't know the exact answer. It depends on when exactly this picture was taken. Is the lad on the picture older than 12 or not? If he is then the answer is Garry Kasparov and Mikhail Botvinnik, otherwise it's Garry Weinstein and Mikhail Botvinnik


Someone said that Garry is Screech from Saved by the bell

Well, whoever it is, those trousers certainly made me screech!

It's Kasparov and Botvinnik.

Yes, he does seem to be older than 12 years.

How about these two:




Do you recognise both?

Maybe the man on the right side is Anatoly Karpov?

Yes, and the one on the left?


Hint: After this one, they played another 186 games throughout their careers


Now it's too easy

Garry Kasparov
But to be honest I wasn't able to recognize him in this photo!

It was their first game, Karpov was already a World champion (or he is to become one very shortly) and Kasparov was 12. It was a simultaneous exhibition game - GM's against young pioneers


[Event "Team GM/Young Pioneers"]
[Site "Leningrad"]
[Date "1975.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Karpov, Anatoly"]
[Black "Kasparov, Garry"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B92"]


1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8. Bg5
Be6 9. f4 exf4 10. Bxf4 Nc6 11. O-O O-O 12. Kh1 b5 13. Bf3 Ne5 14. Nd4 Bc4 15.
Rf2 b4 16. Nd5 Nxd5 17. exd5 Bf6 18. Rd2 Qb6 19. Be3 Qc7 20. Be4 Rfe8 21. Bg1
g6 22. a3 a5 23. axb4 axb4 24. Rxa8 Rxa8 25. b3 Ba6 26. Nc6 Nxc6 27. dxc6 Re8
28. Bd5 Bc3 29. Rf2 Re1 30. Qf3 Bd4 31. Bxf7+ Kg7 32. Bc4 Rxg1+ 33. Kxg1 Bxf2+
34. Kxf2 Bxc4 35. bxc4 Qa7+ 36. Ke2 Qd4 37. Qd5 Qf6 38. Qe4 b3 39. cxb3 Qb2+
40. Kf1 Qc1+ 41. Qe1 Qf4+ 42. Kg1 Qd4+ 43. Kh1 Qb6 44. Qe7+ Kh6 45. Qf8+ 1-0

Thx,I'm going to revise this game!

If that was the picture of their first game, this is the picture from their last one (31 years later). Except from grey hairs and a few wrinkles, nothing has changed - they have the same pose and face expression as in that first picture. Also Karpovs haircut is more or less the same The passing years forced Kasparov to change his





Here is another one. Who are they?

Bobby Fischer and Susan Polgar.

Excellent. Fischer played many fischer-random chess games with the Polgar's while he lived in their summer house. They are unwilling to disclosure the results


Here is a tougher challenge for you:



Who are they?


You can test yourself here. The record is 24.7 seconds

I don't recognize the person on the left...

The person on the right looks like Vladimir Kramnik -- in dire need of a haircut.

When I first saw that picture I thought it was a woman But then I saw it is Kramnik. This was taken in 92 olympiad when Kramnik was 16 or 17.


Hint for the picture on the left: The picture was taken sometimes in the mid 50's and the person on the picture is about 23-25 years old.


I'll give you more hints after some guessing

Second hint: The man on the left picture (above) was a world championship challenger.


By the way, here is Kramnik in his Weird Al Yankovich days

Okay, I'm probably wrong; but I'll make a guess of Mikhail Tal...

All that Kramnik is missing in that picture is a chessy mustache.

Third hint: He played in 2 and a half () world championship matches, but lost on all ocassions (to the same opponent).

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