______________________________________________________________Stephen Dann
Grandmaster Larry Christiansen of Cambridge was once a bullfighter? The famous photo from a vintage Chess Life cover was part of Edward Winter’s Chess Explorations featuring chess players with some unusual pets, including photos of early 20th-century world champion Jose Capablanca on horseback, found at www.chessbase.com.
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Images from:
Edward Winter's Chess Explorations (54)
20.12.2010 – The bullfighter is revealed as Larry Christiansen. In giving the answers to the picture quiz the Editor of Chess Notes
3 comments:
Yasser Seirawan mentions this event, along with at least one other great Larry anecdote (I won't give it away!), in his great recent book Chess Duels.
Aw, c'mon, Dan, you mean I'm going to have to buy that book?
;-)
(Actually, I have a couple of Yasser's books, which he cheerfully signed when I visited his ICE office in Washington state years ago. They've always been enjoyable reads, so I may very well buy Chess Duels later.)
Now I know I'm old - I looked at those photos and thought, "Yeah, that's Larry Christiansen from the cover of Chess Life a few years ago. Everyone knows that!"
Yeah, maybe not quite.
Rick Massimo
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