World chess champion Magnus Carlsen, right, during a simultaneous chess session with young players in Yerevan.22.06.2014#2452103
World chess champion Magnus Carlsen, left foreground, during a simultaneous chess session with young players in Yerevan.22.06.2014#2452109
World chess champion Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen, right, conducts simultaneous exhibition involving undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.08.04.2014#2409542
World chess champion Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen, right, conducts simultaneous exhibition involving undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.08.04.2014#2409517
World chess champion Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen, right, conducts simultaneous exhibition involving undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.08.04.2014#2409541
World chess champion Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen, right, conducts simultaneous exhibition involving undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.08.04.2014#2409523
World chess champion Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen, right, conducts simultaneous exhibition involving undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.08.04.2014#2409539
World chess champion Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen, left, conducts simultaneous exhibition involving undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.08.04.2014#2409540
World chess champion Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen, left, visits the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.08.04.2014#2409480
World chess champion Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen, left, visits the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.08.04.2014#2409481
World chess champion Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen, left, visits the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.08.04.2014#2409479
Boris Gelfand, winner of Tal Memorial-2013 grandmaster chess tournament, Israeli chess grandmaster, at Digital October Center. The exhibition photo bank.23.06.2013#2760292
Russian chess player Alexander Morozevich during a match of the Tal Memorial-2013 grandmaster chess tournament in Moscow. The exhibition photo bank.22.06.2013#2760295
Indian chess player Viswanathan Anand, International Master and FIDE World Chess Champion, during a chess match. 12.12.2001#3008
World chess champion Anatoly Karpov during a simultaneous exhibition with the heads of diplomatic missions. The Central House of Journalists.25.01.1996#845203
The 1994 Kremlin Stars International Speed Chess Tournament, April 17-24, 1994. A match between grandmasters Garri Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow.23.04.1994#8451819
Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anatoly Karpov with his wife Natalya in a hotel room in New York.07.10.1990#8717205
Natalya, wife of the Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster Anatoly Karpov, in a hotel room in New York.07.10.1990#8717203
Homemade souvenir shoes in the hotel room of the Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster Anatoly Karpov in New York.07.10.1990#8717199
Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anatoly Karpov with his wife Natalya in a hotel room in New York.01.10.1990#8717204
Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anatoly Karpov with his wife Natalya during a visit to a toy store in New York.01.10.1990#8717206
Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anatoly Karpov with his wife Natalya during a visit to a toy store in New York.01.10.1990#8717208
Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anatoly Karpov with his wife Natalya during a visit to a jewelry store in New York.01.10.1990#8717202
Left: Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anatoly Karpov during a visit to a philatelic store in New York.01.10.1990#8717201
Soviet chess player, three-time world chess champion, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anatoly Karpov with his wife Natalya in a hotel room in New York.01.10.1990#8717207
Garry Kasparov, international grandmaster, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, USSR champion, world chess champion, during a simultaneous game with young athletes at a chess festival in Moscow.03.06.1989#8449842
Chess enthusiasts during a simultaneous game with international grandmaster Alexei Suetin, in Gogolevsky Boulevard in Moscow.01.09.1988#6289096
International grandmaster Alexei Suetin during a simultaneous game with chess enthusiasts in Gogolevsky Boulevard in Moscow.01.09.1988#6289095
Chess enthusiasts during a simultaneous game with international grandmaster Alexei Suetin, in Gogolevsky Boulevard in Moscow.01.09.1988#6289094
Onlookers watch international grandmaster Alexei Suetin during a simultaneous game with chess enthusiasts in Gogolevsky Boulevard in Moscow.01.09.1988#6289093
International grandmaster Alexei Suetin during a simultaneous game with chess enthusiasts in Gogolevsky Boulevard in Moscow.01.09.1988#6289092
International grandmaster Alexei Suetin, right, during a simultaneous game with chess enthusiasts in Gogolevsky Boulevard in Moscow.01.09.1988#6289090
Alexander Goldin, an international chess grandmaster, champion of the USSR among young masters in 1988, winner and medalist at various national and international competitions.01.07.1988#5558815
Vladimir Malanyuk, an international chess grandmaster, vice-champion of the USSR in 1986, repeated participant of the USSR championships, winner and medalist at various national and international competitions.01.07.1988#5558814
Grandmaster Sergei Smagin plays against childrenat the Gaidar Palace of Young Pioneers and School Students in Moscow's Lyublinsky District, now Lyublino.10.06.1988#5495824
The World Chess Championship played in Seville, Spain between October 12 and December 19, 1987. Argentinian International Grandmaster Miguel Najdorf, center right, and Grandmaster Eduard Gufelf, a special correspondent with the Sovetsky Sport newspaper, talk during a game.15.10.1987#5788919
The World Chess Championship played in Seville, Spain between October 12 and December 19, 1987. World champion Garry Kasparov, right, and former world champion Anatoly Karpov. The Lope de Vega Theater.15.10.1987#5788918
The champion chess match in the Italian city of Seville, October 12 - December 19, 1987. World champion Garry Kasparov and three-time world chess champion among men Anatoly Karpov (from right to left) during a duel for the chess crown at the Lope de Vegav theater.15.10.1987#8442816
Anatoly Karpov with his stamp collection. The days of the world chess championship match between world champion Garry Kasparov and former world champion Anatoly Karpov.10.10.1987#847724
Anatoly Karpov and his wife Natalya Bulanova in the days of the world chess championship match between world chess champion Garry Kasparov and former world champion Anatoly Karpov.10.10.1987#847723
Anatoly Karpov during breakfast at his residence. Grandmaster Igor Zaytsev (left), Anatoly Karpov's wife Natalya Bulanova (right). The days of the world chess championship match between world champion Garry Kasparov and former world champion Anatoly Karpov.10.10.1987#847722
The world chess championship match between world champion Garry Kasparov and former world champion Anatoly Karpov. From left: Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, and president of the World Chess Federation Florencio Campomanes at the match opening ceremony. The Lope de Vega theater.10.10.1987#847720
The world chess championship match between world champion Garry Kasparov (right) and former world champion Anatoly Karpov.10.10.1987#847719
The World Chess Championship played in Seville, Spain between October 12 and December 19, 1987. A news conference with former world champion Anatoly Karpov, center.01.10.1987#5788917
International grandmaster, three-time world chess champion among men, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anatoly Karpov during a training session.23.06.1987#8442666
International grandmaster, three-time world chess champion among men, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Anatoly Karpov during a training session.23.06.1987#8442663
The wedding of Anatoly Karpov, international grandmaster, three-time world chess champion among men, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, and Natalya Bulanova.01.06.1987#8442665
The wedding of Anatoly Karpov, international grandmaster, three-time world chess champion among men, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, and Natalya Bulanova.01.06.1987#8442664
Azerbaijan SSR. Young chess players, students of the Gakh Chess School, analyze chess games on the computer: sitting, right: candidate master, 14-year-old Firuza Velikhanli, USSR champion in chess among girls, winner of the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR (1986) Aynur Sofiyeva, standing in the center, and 15-year-old Volodya Akopyan. All of them are students of Mikhail Botvinnik's famous chess school.01.10.1986#8959480
Aynur Sofiyeva, USSR chess champion among girls, winner of the Spartakiad of the USSR Peoples in 1986, high school student, studies chess literature during theoretical and practical preparation for tournaments. Gakhi settlement, Azerbaijani SSR.01.10.1986#8959466
Center: USSR chess champion among girls, winner of the 1986 USSR Peoples' Spartakiad, high school student Aynur Sofiyeva plays chess with performers of the amateur group of the theater studio of the village of Gakhi, Azerbaijan SSR.01.10.1986#8959440
USSR chess champion among girls, winner of the 1986 USSR Peoples' Spartakiad, high school student Aynur Sofiyeva does physical education in the yard of her house. Gakhi settlement, Azerbaijan SSR.01.10.1986#8959360
Ainur Sofiyeva, USSR women's chess champion, winner of the Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, accepts congratulations from residents of her native village of Gakh, Azerbaijan SSR.01.10.1986#8391433
Ainur Sofiyeva, USSR women's chess champion, winner of the Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, during a training session in the village of Gakh, Azerbaijan SSR.01.10.1986#8391432
News conference at the Park Lane Hotel in London on the upcoming world chess championship rematch between world champion Garry Kasparov and former world champion Anatoly Karpov (fourth from right).27.07.1986#8587065
News conference at the Park Lane Hotel in London on the upcoming world chess championship rematch between world champion Garry Kasparov (second left) and former world champion Anatoly Karpov.27.07.1986#8587064
Anatoly Karpov (c), International Grandmaster, ex-champion of the world, with delegates to the 27th Congress of the CPSU in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace). 1986.28.02.1986#843248
