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October 15, 2005
Pics 05 - Still Life with GMs
More from my dozens of gigabytes of 99%-unpublished chess photos. (You can find the others by using the search with 'pics'.) You should be able to recognize all of the players in this horribly backlit photo from the 2002 Prague Eurotel rapid tournament VIP room. [GM Lubomir Kavalek, who was commenting on the games on a demo board behind me, says the woman in the picture is the Mrs. Sokolov.]
You can view larger versions of the same photo here: 800x600 / 1200x900.
My reports, interviews, and many more photos from that event, which was followed by the famous-if-fruitless Prague unification meeting, are at ChessBase in my columns #165, photos, #166, #167. #167 has a "blind" section (common in gossip columns) that you might have a guess at since it's long passed.
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'some bulgarian guy'?... dawg!... thanks for the site for the past coupla weeks ... it's been my favorite.
Posted by: gil epis at October 16, 2005 03:45Can somebody identify the other people in the photo? The only person I recognize is the "some Bulgarian guy".
Posted by: peachtree at October 16, 2005 15:50"Can somebody identify the other people in the photo?"
Third from right is Ivan Sokolov. Far right looks like Teimur Radjabov. I think, but am not sure, that Mikhail Gurevich is second from right.
Posted by: geeker at October 16, 2005 16:04Give the man a ceeegar!
Posted by: Mig at October 16, 2005 16:31Thanks, but you *did* say that we "should be able to recognize all of the players."
Posted by: geeker at October 16, 2005 21:21Thanks, but you *did* say that we "should be able to recognize all of the players."
Posted by: geeker at October 16, 2005 21:23It's not easy to see this but Teimour is the only one looking at the camera.
Posted by: Jeremy at October 17, 2005 00:24Actually, I suppose Topalov might be looking at the camera too, hehe. Funny they are both perhaps looking out of the corner of their eyes at the camera. Or maybe it's something else...
Posted by: Jeremy at October 17, 2005 06:50What happened to chesscafe.com? I keep getting www.lunarpages.com! What's the deal?????
Posted by: Morrowind at October 17, 2005 09:53Morrowind, try chesscafe.com now. It's up for me.
Posted by: Zinger at October 17, 2005 13:24Please Mig, keep posting this kind of pictures.
Posted by: Fotos at October 18, 2005 05:53Nice composition, worthy of classical dutch masters.
Too bad about the harsh light.
Yah, and Radja ruined the effect by looking at me. Otherwise it really does look as oddly posed as a painting. I'll try to post one every few weeks; remind me if I don't.
Posted by: Mig at October 18, 2005 10:26Morrowind having the problem.
It seems chesscafe.com is playing web refugee on the http://uscfsales.com/ site.
I can access the articles and it shows the chesscafe/whatever pathname. But the homepage is giving me lunarpages...
Posted by: TheDalaiLamer at October 18, 2005 11:25EDIT: "I am" having the same problem.
Posted by: TheDalaiLamer at October 18, 2005 11:26
