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

Douglas Griffin on X: @SovietVisuals Another Soviet World Champion, Mikhail Tal, pictured at the 30th USSR Championship (Yerevan, 1962). / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Three portraits from the Keres Memorial in Tallinn, March 1977 - Mikhail Tal, Oleg Romanishin & Boris Gulko. Tal took 1st place, Romanishin 2nd; Gulko finished in 4th-6th. (

Douglas Griffin on X: Two World Champions - Tigran Petrosian & Mikhail Tal. I think this photo was taken at the 8th USSR People's Spartakiad, in Moscow, during July 1983. (Photo credit

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

Douglas Griffin on X: A couple of photos of the 8th World Champion, Mikhail Tal. USSR, late 1970s. (Photo credits: L. Tugalev.) #chess / X

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: 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: Three portraits from the Keres Memorial in Tallinn, March 1977 - Mikhail Tal, Oleg Romanishin & Boris Gulko. Tal took 1st place, Romanishin 2nd; Gulko finished in 4th-6th. (

Douglas Griffin Soviet Chess History

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: At the demonstration board, the 8th World Champion, Mikhail Tal (b. Riga, 9th Nov 1936; d. Moscow, 28th June 1992.) (Photo via #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: Tbilisi, December 1978. The 46th USSR Championship final. In conversation, ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal and, at the chessboard, the 15-year-old debutant, and future World Champion @Kasparov63. (Photo source

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