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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Art and Chess Trivia: Identify the Chess Legend, Location of Painting

Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2014

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 This chess painting takes your breath away every single time you pass by it. How about you? Can you identify this chess legend? (And where is this painting installed?)


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8 comments:

  1. The AnonymouseFebruary 9, 2014 at 12:50 PM

    Definitely definitely Mikhail Tal but where it hangs? Riga? Moscow? Louvre? London? New York?

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  2. Aks, ChennaiFebruary 9, 2014 at 12:53 PM

    Tal the genius. In Moscow this painting i think. Why someone mention Riga?

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  3. SN, ColomboFebruary 9, 2014 at 12:54 PM

    Alexander Alekhine, Paris Museum

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  4. Sebastian Wolff, WashingtonFebruary 9, 2014 at 12:57 PM

    Mikhail Tal Magician from Riga he was Soviet-Latvian Grandmaster. I think the painting is in the Moscow Museum.

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  5. Nathan S, LondonFebruary 9, 2014 at 1:08 PM

    Hey Guys that IS MIKHAIL TAL a dead man would tell you and the venue is the Moscow Central Chess Club. I did see an Alexandra video from there though it didn't have this particular painting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPjIoCD8HG0 I am definitely correct I THINK.

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  6. Suyash Sinha, New delhiFebruary 9, 2014 at 1:32 PM

    I go with Nathan's answer

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2014 at 8:51 AM

    Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik



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  8. Alexis Cochran, NZFebruary 10, 2014 at 9:59 AM

    Kramnik has won the Mikhail Tal memorial but this is Mikhail Tal for sure - should be Moscow

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