Douglas Griffin on X: Brussels, 1987. @JamesPlaskett, Mikhail Tal

Douglas Griffin on X: Wijk aan Zee, 19th January 1968. Viktor Korchnoi faces Mikhail Tal in what proved to be the last of eight(!) successive victories at the start of this 15-round

Douglas Griffin on X: Three portraits from the Keres Memorial in Tallinn, March 1977 - Mikhail Tal, Oleg Romanishin & Boris Gulko. Tal took 1st place, Romanishin 2nd; Gulko finished in 4th-6th. (

Douglas Griffin on X: Three portraits from the Keres Memorial in Tallinn, March 1977 - Mikhail Tal, Oleg Romanishin & Boris Gulko. Tal took 1st place, Romanishin 2nd; Gulko finished in 4th-6th. (

Douglas Griffin on X: Mikhail Tal (Latvia) v. Paul Keres (Estonia), 2nd USSR People's Spartakiad, Moscow, August 1959. (Source: TASS archive.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Defending World Champion Mikhail Tal, pictured with (I think) his wife Sally Landau, during his title match v. Mikhail Botvinnik. Moscow, April 1961. (Photographer: M. S. Okushko; source

Douglas Griffin on X: A couple of photos of the 8th World Champion, Mikhail Tal. USSR, late 1970s. (Photo credits: L. Tugalev.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Mikhail Tal was born 87 years ago today. A reminder that translations of his annotations to a selection of his later games, as published in the contemporary Soviet #

Douglas Griffin on X: Mikhail Tal and Iivo Nei playing blitz, Tallinn 1977. (Source: #chess / X

X에서 Douglas Griffin 님 : Mikhail Tal and Mikhail Botvinnik. (Date, place & photo credit unknown. Late 1960s?) #chess / X