Author: Kira Alekseyevna Zvorykina (1919-2014) and Kveta Eretova
Year: 1954
Place: Moscow
Description:
Original photo (6 3/4" x 4 1/2") from the game Kira Zvorikina - Kveta Eretova played during the match between Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia in Moscow 1954.
The match was played from October 8 to 18, and the Soviet Union won decisively 29:7. The position in the photograph, according to the wall chessboard, is after white's 15th move (15. Nxe5). Zvorikina won on the 25th move.
Kira Alekseyevna Zvorykina was a Soviet chess player who spent many years living in Belarus. She was a three-time winner of the Women's Soviet Championship. In 2018, she was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. Zvorykina married grandmaster and chess trainer Alexey Suetin. Further progress brought Zvorykina up to the pinnacle of Russian Women's chess, as she went on to win the national women's championship outright in 1951, 1953 and 1956. There were also two equal first finishes in 1957 (she lost the tiebreak with Valentina Borisenko) and in 1958 (with Larissa Volpert).
Kveta Eretova was a Czech chess player, who was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 1986. She was ten times Czechoslovak women's chess champion. From the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, Eretová was one of the leading Czechoslovakian female chess players. She won the Czechoslovak Women's Chess Championships ten times: 1955, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1975, 1976 and 1986. Overall, she won 23 medals (including 10 silver and 3 bronzes), a record for all time championships. She was the medalist of many international chess tournaments, including the 2nd place Moscow (1971), Emmen (1971) and Halle (1971, 1978).
Condition:
Edge wear with a closed tear to left edge else very good.