Historic Chess Tournaments

Black and white images depict various chess matches from significant historical tournaments, featuring players in intense concentration and classic chess boards.

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace tube tournament, party between Ivkov and Donner (R). January 19, 1968

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Interzonal chess tournament started, no. 3, 4, 5 Source Stein against toll. May 20, 1964

Anefo photo collection. 28th blast furnace chess tournament in Beverwijk, Jan Hein Donner, with the Russian Polugajevski, who came to watch. January 12, 1966. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace tube tournament. January 28, 1967

Anefo photo collection. Interpolis chess tournament Tilburg. Jan Timman (left) Tigran Petrosian (right). October 2, 1981. Noord-Brabant, Tilburg

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace tube tournament, party between Ivkov and Donner (R). January 19, 1968

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament, Amsterdam; J. H. Donner against A. K. P. Jongsma (left). July 14, 1970. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. IBM Master Tournament Links C. Zuidema and on the right Donner. July 28, 1965

Anefo photo collection. International Youth Chess Tournament in Groningen, Laszlo Vadars (Hungary). December 27, 1965. Groningen

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace tournament; Nr. 23A Sosonko. January 16, 1975

Anefo photo collection. The IBM chess tournament in the RAI in Amsterdam. The Dutch chess largemaster Jan Hein Donner (L) in action. July 15, 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Fédération Internationale des eChespers (Fide) -Zone Chess tournament 1966 in the canteen of 'The Netherlands of 1845' in The Hague. The Serbian grandmaster Svetozar Gligoriæ on the chess board. October 7, 1966. The Hague, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Interzonal Fide Chess Tournament in Gak Building, Larsen (Denmark). June 11, 1964

Anefo photo collection. Chess players. SCABO. April 9, 1956

Anefo photo collection. 26th blast furnace tube tournament, 13th round. January 23, 1964. Noord-Holland, Velsen

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament 6th round neighborhood by the sea; Portic (R) against Popov (L). January 20, 1975. Noord-Holland, Wijk aan Zee

Anefo photo collection. unknown . BOOst furnace guard tournament in Beverwijk, Gerreben (Israel). January 25, 1963. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. 26th blast furnace chef tournament in Beverwijk, Donner. January 8, 1964. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament, 8th round; Ree is behind Tukmakov. July 24, 1974

Anefo photo collection. Last day IBM mastern tournament. August 30, 1962

Anefo photo collection. 28th blast furnace chess tournament in Beverwijk, Polugajevski (Russia). January 12, 1966. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace tournament in Wijk aan Zee Portisch (Links and Olafsson. January 15, 1969. Noord-Holland, Wijk aan Zee

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace tube tournament, final round; Browne (left) against Kortsjnoj. January 31, 1980

Anefo photo collection. International chess tournament in Utrecht. Okelly against Van Geet. December 16, 1961. Utrecht

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace tournament; Seirawan in action, with the Ree behind. January 22, 1980

Anefo photo collection. BOOst furnace tournament in Beverwijk, Uhlmann. January 17, 1961. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament; Spasski and Pologajewski (left). July 30, 1970. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace chess tournament third round. Kuyper (Netherlands). January 15, 1970

Anefo photo collection. Country chess tournament in Calter building in The Hague. Helmut neunhoffer (Germany) and R. Hartoch (Holland). July 17, 1963. The Hague, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Jan Mulder (left) and Gerard 'Pummie' Bergholtz at Anderlecht, play a game of chess. February 14, 1966. Belgium, Brussels

Anefo photo collection. Interpolis chess tournament in Tilburg. Timman (R) in action against Sosonko; Karpov watches. November 15, 1979. Noord-Brabant, Tilburg

Anefo photo collection. 28th blast furnace chess tournament in Beverwijk, Theo van Scheltinga (the Netherlands). January 12, 1966. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament, Donner (left) and Timman. July 19, 1973. Amsterdam

Anefo photo collection. Chess world championships. A. Kuindzhi (Soviet Union). August 17, 1961. Soviet Union

Seville. 10/12/1987. World Chess Championship. Karpov and Kasparov face to face.

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace chess tournament Botwinnik (links) (No 20 and 2. 14 January 1969

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament. Donner and Langeweg. June 5, 1961

Anefo photo collection. Chess Vierkamp Amsterdam. Jan Timman (L) J. Hjartarson. March 21, 1989. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. 28th blast furnace chess tournament in Beverwijk, Dr. M. Filip (Czechoslovakia). January 12, 1966. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. Third round IBM chess tournament, Kuypers against Donner. July 23, 1964

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace tube tournament, 2nd round; Nikolac (L) against Polugujewski. January 21, 1979

Anefo photo collection. Sixth round blast furnace chess tournament. Overview of women's shooters. January 17, 1962

Anefo photo collection. 28th blast furnace chess tournament in Beverwijk, the big contender, the Russian Polugajevski. January 12, 1966. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. Jan Timman Joussoepov seventh round candidate match Tilburg. Jan Timman. January 28, 1986. Noord-Brabant, Tilburg

Anefo photo collection. Fourth round blast furnace chess tournament. Standing Donner, Trifunovic against Okelly. January 14, 1962. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. Sun chamber tournament in Amsterdam; Sinterklaas looks at Jan Timman. December 4, 1978. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Interpolis chess tournament in Tilburg. 6th round, hübner turn against Karpov. November 8, 1979. Noord-Brabant, Tilburg

Anefo photo collection. IBM Master Tournament Parma. July 28, 1965

Anefo photo collection. 28th blast furnace chess tournament in Beverwijk, Czernia (Israel). January 12, 1966. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. OHRA chess tournament; John van der Wiel Kortsjnoij (R). August 2, 1988. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Russian chess players at simultaneous tournament in Hilversum. December 27, 1959. Hilversum

Anefo photo collection. Danlon ladies chess tournament, Corrie Vreeken is looking at the transactions of Fenny Heemskerk. October 23, 1962

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament, 10th round; Hans Ree looks at Timman. July 25, 1978

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament Amsterdam, left Eddy Scholl against right Smslov. July 17, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. 28th blast furnace chess tournament in Beverwijk, BILEK (Hungary). January 12, 1966. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. De Gak-Zeskamp in Amsterdam. J. H. Donner. December 11, 1963. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace tube tournament, donner. January 24, 1965

Anefo photo collection. 26th blast furnace guard tournament in Beverwijk, M. G. Bobotsov (Bulgaria) in his party. January 8, 1964. Beverwijk, Bulgaria

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace tube tournament, final round; Ljubojevic (left) shakes the hand. January 29, 1976

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament 1975 in Amsterdam. Ligterink (R) against the Philippine Rodriguez. July 21, 1975

Anefo photo collection. First round blast furnace chess tournament neighborhood by the sea. Donner (right) against Kurapca. January 13, 1970. Noord-Holland, Wijk aan Zee

Anefo photo collection. First round country tournament world chess championship. On blackboard bronstein. March 26, 1956

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament in Amsterdam, Donner (right) against Ivkov. July 8, 1976. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament, Petrosjan rear plate. August 2, 1973. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace tube tournament, final round; Olafson against sosonko. January 29, 1976

Anefo photo collection. 33rd blast furnace chef tournament, neighborhood by the sea. January 11, 1971. Noord-Holland, Wijk aan Zee

Anefo photo collection. Chess Vierkamp Ree, Sosonko, Donner and Tinman. Donner against Ree (left), Sosonko standing. November 27, 1973

Anefo photo collection. 26th blast furnace chef tournament in Beverwijk, P. Keres (USSR. January 8, 1964. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. National student chess championships 1958. 8 April 1958

Anefo photo collection. Chess tournament Baarn. May 9, 1947. Baarn

Anefo photo collection. Interpolis chess tournament Tilburg (1st round). Karpov (R) world champion against Andersson. October 12, 1983. Noord-Brabant, Tilburg

Anefo photo collection. Interzonal chess tournament, locking party left lars and smslov. June 21, 1964

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament in the RAI in Amsterdam. Jan-Hein Donner. July 13, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. KRO Kekeweekamp Timman (R) Kasparov (L). December 17, 1985

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Third IBM mastern tournament. Mr. C. Zuidema recessed deeply. August 29, 1963

Anefo photo collection. Start from the 22nd blast furnace guard tournament in Beverwijk left Fohlr and right Toran. January 7, 1960. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. Dutch Dam Championship Roozenburg-Keller. March 18, 1950

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace tube tournament, H. Ree on the board. January 18, 1967

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace tournament; Polugagajevski (L) against Hubner. January 29, 1979

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace tube tournament, G. Stahlberg. January 9, 1963

29th International Chess Congress at the White Rock Pavilion Hastings, Sussex -- The Congress opened to-day and will run for ten days for the first time in 20 years Russia is taking part. Alexander Tolush, a burly 42 year Leningrad (right) in play against Olafson, aged 19 from Iceland. December 30, 1953. (Photo by Daily Mail Contract Picture).

Anefo photo collection. Interfide chess tournament in Gak building, Stein. May 21, 1964

Anefo photo collection. Sugar room tournament in Krasnapolsky Amsterdam. December 20, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament, Amsterdam. July 21, 1970. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. 28th blast furnace chess tournament in Beverwijk, Kick Langeweg (the Netherlands). January 12, 1966. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. Prince Claus has carried out the draw in Rotterdam for the competition to the world title dams between Harm Wiersma and Anatoli Gantwarg (Russia). Prince Claus, assisted by Harm Wiersma, Damt against the Russian ambassador Tolstikov, with Gantwarg in addition. October 29, 1981. Rotterdam, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Sun chamber tournament Amsterdam; No. 5, 6 Sosonko (Close). December 6, 1978. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament 1967. Number 14 Portic / Ghitescu, number 15 Ree / Donner, number 16 Zuidema (Netherlands), number 16 Portic /. July 18, 1967. The Netherlands

Anefo photo collection. 28th blast furnace chess tournament in Beverwijk, Carel van den Berg (the Netherlands). January 12, 1966. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament has started. Numbers 8.9 Donner (right). July 16, 1968

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament, 5th round, sosonko. July 1, 1977. Amsterdam

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament in Amsterdam, 3rd round; Donner (L) against Sosonko. 30 June 1977. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Peter Stuyvesant chess tournament in Zevenaar. Two grandmasters exercises. Okelly and C. Guimard. October 23, 1961. Gelderland, Zevenaar

Anefo photo collection. Interpolis chess tournament in Tilburg, Karpov in Aktie. September 23, 1980. Noord-Brabant, Tilburg

Anefo photo collection. Last competition to the personal bank championship in the Netherlands in Utrecht. February 28, 1959. Utrecht

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace chess tournament; Leader Skort Switch (to Nogueiras). January 30, 1987

Anefo photo collection. Blast furnace tube tournament. Pilnik. January 8, 1963

Anefo photo collection. Timman (L) Joessoepov (R) start Chessweke camp Hilversum. December 14, 1986. Hilversum

Anefo photo collection. BOOst furnace tournament in Beverwijk, Bronstein. January 25, 1963. Beverwijk

Anefo photo collection. BOOst furnace tournament in Wijk aan Zee. January 24, 1980. Noord-Holland, Wijk aan Zee

Anefo photo collection. Championship Chess Moscow, right Smslow, Left Botvinnik (also known as Botwinner). April 19, 1957. Moscow

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