World Chess Champion Candidates Tournament in Leningrad

USSR. Leningrad. International grandmasters, winner of chess Olympiads as part of the USSR national team, winner of the chess "Oscar" Anatoly Evgenievich Karpov and former world champion, two-time USSR champion Boris Vasilyevich Spassky (from left to right in the foreground) before the start of the first match in the semifinals of the World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament at the F. E. Dzerzhinsky Palace of Culture. The semifinal series of games ended with a victory for A. E. Karpov with a score of 4:1. Nikolay Naumenkov/TASS