Look who's playing chess – three!?

Solutions

Personalities 22

Mikhail Tal and Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Guevara with Miguel Najdorf, watching Mark Taimanow vs Larry Evans, and alone at the board, all at the Havanna Olympiad 1966.

Personality 23

Josip Broz "Tito" in 1944

Personality 24

Fiorello LaGuardia, Major of New York, playing Tito

Personality 25

Gamal Abdel-Nasser with his son Khaled in 1966

Gamal Abdel-Nasser, president of Egypt

Personalities 26

A.A. Bogdanov, Maxim Gorki and Vladimir Iljitsch Uljanow ("Lenin"), April 1908

Lenin vs A.A. Bogdanov, 1908

Personalities 27

Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin with presidential security
advisor Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski at Camp David, September 12, 1978

Personalities 28

Simul by GM Lothar Schmid with Richard Stücklen,
Walter Grund and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt on April 23, 1969.

Personalities 29

Cuban leader Fidel Castro being coached
by Lev Polugaevsky and Tigran Petrosian

Personalities 30

Nathan Sharansky, Shay Buchinsky, Benjamin Netanyahu, Tel Aviv 1999

Sharansky vs Nethanyahu

The winner of part three of our personalities puzzle was Hans Engen of Aalborg, Denmark, who gets a copy of our brandnew Fritz 7 program. Many thanks for the large number of very kind letters. The new pictures were espcially interesting. Please keep sending us pictures (or links) of famous personalities playing chess.

Source

All the pictures from our current personality quiz were taken from the very interesting web site of the Giessen Chess Club, which is well worth a visit:

You will find new pictures of chess personalities there (go to "Photogalerien" from the main page). Here's a new picture wich definitely belongs in our collection:

This is Humphry Bogart teaching his young bride Lauren Bacall the moves in 1949

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