A real throwback!

World Junior Championship, 1953. F Olafsson vs J Penrose. Photo: Arinbjörn Gudmundsson. Courtesy Gunnar Finnlaugsson pic.twitter.com/JLcw9XH5VU

— Lars Grahn (@larsgrahn) August 22, 2016

It's Sabotage!

From Lars Grahn:

Olympiad 1988. USSR Gold. Makarychev(?), Yusupov, Beliavsky, Karpov, Ivanchuk, and Kasparov. Photo: Lars Grahn pic.twitter.com/9rQTarBct2

— Lars Grahn (@larsgrahn) August 18, 2016

Check out Chuky's 'stache! Gives me an idea for what we could do for the next USATS. Clearly Paul would have to play the part of Sir Stewart Wallace....

"Tempus fugit..."

That was Nigel Short's twitter reaction to this tweet by Lars Grahn:

Thessaloniki Olympiad 1988. England Silver. Speelman, Nunn, Chandler, Mestel, Watson, and Short. Photo: Lars Grahn pic.twitter.com/NGdjuC2WRy

— Lars Grahn (@larsgrahn) August 17, 2016

He's not wrong!

Pictures, cont.

The other day I mentioned Lars Grahn's Twitter feed, full of old pictures. Here's an example, a picture from a very famous game.

Euro Team Championship, Skara 1980. A classic. Karpov vs Miles: 1.e4 a6!? 2.d4 b5. 46 moves, 0-1. Photo: Lars Grahn pic.twitter.com/ZSA3xkpSX5

— Lars Grahn (@larsgrahn) July 1, 2016

Pictures

The Swede Lars Grahn has been tweeting lots of old pictures of chess players lately, mostly from the 1970s & 1980s. It you're interested in such things, check out his Twitter feed. Events of particular note have been Tilburg 1977, the European Team Championship from Skara 1980, and the Seville World Championship Match from 1987. I imagine those people my age & older will be particularly interested.