In Edward Winter's Chess Notes No. 3351, accessible at
http://www.chesscafe.com/winter/winter.htm, there is a group
photograph of the players from New York 1924. Winter says, "Any
reader who thinks that we are merely reproducing a famous shot is
invited to look more closely."

I have looked more closely but I don't see anything. What's the joke?

Sincerely,

Mark J. Finegold

"Mark J. Finegold" wrote in message
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In Edward Winter's Chess Notes No. 3351, accessible at
http://www.chesscafe.com/winter/winter.htm, there is a group
photograph of the players from New York 1924. Winter says, "Any
reader who thinks that we are merely reproducing a famous shot is
invited to look more closely."

I have looked more closely but I don't see anything. What's the joke?

Sincerely,

Mark J. Finegold

The photo in Winter's column resembles the one that appears in the
tournament book. However, the two photos are different.

Pete Klimek

Mark J. Finegold wrote:

I have looked more closely but I don't see anything. What's the joke?

You have to compare it with some other NY 1924 photograph -- have you?

The one printed in Wiener Schachzeitung 1924 (though I can't say
if that is particularly famous), is taken a step or two to the left
from the ChessCafe one. In WSz Aljechin's shadow is to the left of his
head, in the Chesscafe one it's to the right. And it looks like
Yates (first row, left) looks almost into the lens of the Chesscafe
photo photographer, while in the WSz photo he clearly looks to the right.
Reti and Marshall, on the other hand, seem to look left in both photos,
so perhaps there's yet another photograph somewhere taken even further
to the left.

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