In a recent Chess Notes, Edward Winter asks readers what event is
depicted in this photograph:

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/i...tml#5469._What

Personally, I think it's the murder of Thomas á Becket.

wrote:
In a recent Chess Notes, Edward Winter asks readers what event is
depicted in this photograph:

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/i...tml#5469._What

Looks like a pawn shop, to me.


Dave.

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On Mar 20, 10:29*am, David Richerby
wrote:
wrote:
In a recent Chess Notes, Edward Winter asks readers what event is
depicted in this photograph:

*http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/i...tml#5469._What

Looks like a pawn shop, to me.

Nah, that's clearly a bishop being assaulted, which is why I incline
to Becket.

On Mar 20, 9:49 am, wrote:

In a recent Chess Notes, Edward Winter asks readers what event is
depicted in this photograph:

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/i...tml#5469._What


This is a rare photo of a Soviet KGB agent
setting up a cleverly-disguised spy camera
in a window across the street from Bobby
Fischer's hotel room. Using the latest in
camera-miniaturization technology, it was
discerned that BF planned to play 1.e4 as
White, but technical problems arose when
children playing in the room knocked the
giant Bishop off its teetering post atop the
railing; the KGB agent was sent to the
gulag for his carelessness and it was not
discovered until years later that BF had
been studying Alekhine's Defense, as he
had been advised by America's CIA of the
spying.

As a result of this failure, later spying
attempts were far more sophisticated; in
one case, flies were fitted with nano-tech
miniature cameras, but the film was
found to be too small to process without
a nano-tech film-developing machine,
which no one inside the KGB had even
considered; the agent in charge was
sent off to the gulag.

After consulting with real experts, it
was decided that microphones would be
hidden inside GM Fischer's hotel room;
unfortunately, all that was discerned
from this was that BF despised Jews,
and worried that he might be poisoned
by the KGB. "We hadn't thought of
that!", a high-level agent reportedly
said; he, too, was eventually sent off to
the gulag, for incompetence.


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Is it a scene from Godzilla v the Smog Monster?

Actually, the profile of the human looks like Spassky. Is the town in
the background Reykjavik?

On Mar 20, 7:49 am, wrote:
In a recent Chess Notes, Edward Winter asks readers what event is
depicted in this photograph:

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/i...tml#5469._What

Personally, I think it's the murder of Thomas á Becket.

My guess would be that there was an important Chess match going on,
and the photograph is of someone setting up a Bishop-shaped sign
giving the move that was just made.

Or, perhaps even more likely, he is moving a Bishop on a display board
which shows the current position.

But how to identify the particular chess match - and which move of
which game - is beyond me; I think one would have to have seen the
picture before, and then look up the article in which one has seen it.

John Savard

On Mar 20, 9:49*am, wrote:
* In a recent Chess Notes, Edward Winter asks readers what event is
depicted in this photograph:

*http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/i...tml#5469._What

* Personally, I think it's the murder of Thomas á Becket.

The answer is quite interesting, and not at all what I expected.
See:

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/i..._A_pawn_ending

and go down to item 5481.