Mon 17 Sep 2007

Boris Spassky

Last week, I mentioned that I had played in a simultaneous chess exhibition against Boris Spassky. I went and hunted out some photos from that event today. Looking at the photos around it in my photo album, it looks this must have taken place sometime around June, 1989, not 1990 as I first guessed.

There's 18-year-old me resigning to the World Champion of 1969–1972. I wasn't ever a really good chess player, so the result wasn't too surprising. There are a couple of other photos (this one and here) from the same night in my Flickr account.

[This scan is unfortunately very grainy, partly because the original is looking a bit worn at the moment, but mostly because it really suffers from the conversion to 8-bit color that the Gimp enforces. 16-bit color support in the Gimp cannot arrive fast enough for me. Yes, I know about Cine Paint, but it's a long way behind the Gimp in other features, so I don't have it built and installed. A few more crappy scans like this and I might have to change my mind, though.]

Topics: chess, photography