Douglas Griffin on X: Karpov-Korchnoi, 18th match-game, FIDE Candidates' final, Moscow 1974. (Source: TASS, photographer: V. Savostianov.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Some more scenes from the match. #1 The 7th match- game in progress. #2 Korchnoi at the board. #3 Petrosian at the board. #4 The ex-World Champion takes a

Douglas Griffin on X: The 'Tournament of Peace', Rovinj/Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1970. Bobby Fischer is seen in play in what would prove to be a theoretically important game v. Dragoljub Minić in the

Douglas Griffin on X: Wijk aan Zee 1968 - Viktor Korchnoi (USSR) is seen in play v. Aleksandar Matanović (Yugoslavia). In 'Chess is My Life' (1977), Korchnoi was to describe this game

Douglas Griffin on X: '#Chess Life', August 1982. The cover features the Seirawan v. Karpov encounter from the recent London (Phillips & Drew) international. The American grandmaster defeated the World Champion, who

Douglas Griffin on X: Moscow, 2nd July 1968. Viktor Korchnoi and Mikhail Tal are pictured in analysis of the 4th game of their Candidate's Semi-final match, as Semyon Furman looks on. (📷

Douglas Griffin on X: Moscow, 15th December 1971. Leonid Stein is pictured in play v. Anatoly Karpov in the 15th round of the Alekhine Memorial tournament. These players shared 1st-2nd place in

Douglas Griffin on X: The @FIDE_chess Candidates quarter-final between Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) & Tigran Petrosian (USSR), Velden am Wörthersee (Austria), March 1980. #1, #2 The match in progress; #3 Petrosian & wife

Douglas Griffin on X: The 13-year-old Garry Kasparov - already USSR Under- 18 champion - pictured in play at the Khalilbeyli Memorial tournament in Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan, May-June 1976. (Photo credit: V. Kalinin

Douglas Griffin on X: 40 years ago - World Champion Anatoly Karpov (USSR), pictured at the IBM International in Amsterdam, May 1981. (📷H. van Dijk (#1); M. Antonisse (#2, 3, 4) /

Douglas Griffin on X: The programme for the 1974 FIDE Candidates' final between grandmasters Anatoly Karpov & Viktor Korchnoi. The match took place in the Hall of Columns of the House of