11 years ago @goldendog started a thread called "Greatest Chess Photos." It spanned 71 pages. While many of the proffered photos were mundane internet image grabs, a good many were very nice and rather unknown. Unfortunately, many images were hot-linked or stored in the chess.com albums (which disappeared a few years ago) and no longer show in that thread.

A member contacted me and asked for my top 3 favorite photos (for a reason he can explain if he chooses to post here) or to have others produce their suggestions.  I think photos are too subjective in many ways and too broad for me to narrow down to a top 500, let alone 3. 

At any rate, I'm suggesting people post their favorites (looking for quality, not quantity) in this thread. 

My tastes for favorite chess images lean more towards art, such as this painting by the Hungarian artist, Tihamér Margitay, circa 1900, titled, Chess Players in Open Air.

Feel free to post the images that truly inspire you.

Super!

cool

tasteful

c'est vrai

Tihamér Margitay

Thank you. 

The young lady in the hat with the cheeky smile has laid a trap for her red headed opponent. She is just about to blunder into the trap and the gentleman kibitzing is biting his tongue because he sees it. 

Hello, 

This post should prove interesting. I like the paintings maybe as much as the photographs, but the composition and the symbols included are also important to my taste.

In the case of photography, there is an element of historical flow, change, or not so much, depending on the time, the place, the composition and the players. I like the story of the Polgár sisters, and here I propose these two, among many other possible fitting examples, as portraying the changes brought about by Zsuzsa Polgar and her younger sisters, Sofia and Judit. 

The first one is of  Zsuzsanna Polgar, still very young, playing chess in a public bath in Budapest, but already a kind of national hero. 

The second is of Judit Polgar playing in Dos Hermanas, in Spain, against Vladimir Kramnik in his classic red jacket.Good read. 

Best regards and keep safe 

  Manuel 

 

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Walter McEwen was an American painter residing in Paris, but well known for his nothing short of exquisite [see Ghost Story] portrayals of domestic Dutch life (he had set up a studio n Holland for a period of time).

Here is his dainty painting, circa 1890 (not 1900, as usually presented), entitled, like so many other paintings,  "The Chess Players."

However, he made a lesser-known chess piece- a drawing- not so dainty and, in fact, quite forceful, whose title and date elude me, but whose spirit enthralls me:

There's something intriguing about this 1927 oil painting by the British artist, Herbert Ashwin Budd, called "the Chess Board."