22 x 16 cm. In 1951, young masters E. Geller (Odessa, Ukrainian SSR) and T. Petrosyan (Moscow) shared second and third places in the final of the 19th USSR Championship. In the picture: E. Geller /left/ and T. Petrosyan /center/ together with grandmaster A. Lilienthal are preparing for the next round of the 19th USSR Championship.

This item originates from the chess book collection of Zahari Stanchev, (April 27, 1920 - January 27, 1980) from Sofia, Bulgaria. Stanchev was Bulgaria's representative to FIDE in the 1960s, a writer of chess books, and an international arbiter.