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Photographies

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Casto Abundo
Maria Bolshakova
SJ Connor
Betsy Dynako
Boris Dolmatovsky
FIDE archives
Maria Fominykh
French Chess Federation
Geurt Gijssen
German Chess Federation
Marek Kolk
Dagobert Kolmeyer
Georg Kradolfer
Vladimir Linder
David LLada
Helmut Metz
Olga Nossova
Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh
Jean Michel Pechinet
Lev Psakhis
Pufichek
Oleg Pervakov
Alexander Roshal
S. Rudolf
Karl-Heinz Schein
Sergey Sorokhtin
Georgios Souleidis
Lothar Schmid
Patrick Van Hoolandt
Fabrice Wantiez
Luc Winants