Douglas Griffin on X: Ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal (b. Riga, 1936; d. Moscow, 1992), pictured at Wijk aan Zee, January 1988. (📷: #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: At the demonstration board, the 8th World Champion, Mikhail Tal (b. Riga, 9th Nov 1936; d. Moscow, 28th June 1992.) (Photo via #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Wijk aan Zee, 16th January 1976. Pictured in play before their encounter in the opening round of the Hoogovens tournament - ex -World Champion Mikhail Tal (USSR) & Swedish

Douglas Griffin on X: Ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal, in play at the Hoogovens tournament at Wijk aan Zee, January 1968. (Photo source: #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Mikhail Tal. Date and place unknown; possibly c. 1980? (Photo source: Latvian Sports Museum.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Wijk aan Zee, 16th January 1976. Pictured in play before their encounter in the opening round of the Hoogovens tournament - ex -World Champion Mikhail Tal (USSR) & Swedish grandmaster Ulf Andersson. ( Photo credit: R. Mieremet

Douglas Griffin on X: Baku, 11th December 1961. The 16th round of the 28th USSR Championship. Ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal (Riga) makes his opening move v. Bukhuti Gurgenidze (Tbilisi). Tal won the

Douglas Griffin on X: Mikhail Tal (USSR) v. Theodor Ghiţescu (Romania), 14th Olympiad, Leipzig 1960. (Source: unknown.) #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Pictured at a blitz training session in the spring of 1975: World Championship challenger Anatoly Karpov, his trainer - grandmaster Semyon Furman, ex-World Champions Tigran Petrosian & Mikhail

Douglas Griffin on X: Riga, 60 years ago today, 14th January 1958. David Bronstein faces Mikhail Tal in the 2nd round of the 25th USSR-ch final. Tal won this event - his

Douglas Griffin on X: Mikhail Tal, pictured in play v. Garry Kasparov in the 5th round of the Moscow Interzonal tournament, 5th September 1982. The game, an early example of the 5.Bg5

Douglas Griffin on X: Ex-World Champion Mikhail Tal (b. Riga, 1936; d. Moscow, 1992), pictured at Wijk aan Zee, January 1988. (📷: #chess / X

Douglas Griffin on X: Riga, of course, has a long and rich #chess history. 40 years ago this September, Mikhail Tal scored one of the greatest results of his later career, winning

Douglas Griffin on X: Hoogovens, Wijk aan Zee, 23rd January 1973. The 7th-round encounter between Mikhail Tal (USSR) & Hein Donner (Netherlands) is in progress. The ex-World Champion won this game in

Douglas Griffin on X: Reykjavík World Cup, October 1988 - the 12th-round pairing of Boris Spassky and @Kasparov63. The game was drawn in 19 moves; in the post-game analysis, the players are