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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Defending World Champion Mikhail Tal, pictured with (I think) his wife Sally Landau, during his title match v. Mikhail Botvinnik. Moscow, April 1961. (Photographer: M. S. Okushko; source

Douglas Griffin on X: Defending World Champion Mikhail Tal, pictured with (I think) his wife Sally Landau, during his title match v. Mikhail Botvinnik. Moscow, April 1961. (Photographer: M. S. Okushko; source

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: 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

X에서 Douglas Griffin 님 : Mikhail Tal and Mikhail Botvinnik. (Date, place & photo credit unknown. Late 1960s?) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Legendary grandmasters Mikhail Tal and David Bronstein. (Photo credit: B. Dolmatovsky, via #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

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

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: 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