connoisseur series500 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Posted June 11, 2006 Navabi from Iran. Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Posted June 11, 2006 No way am I leaving out my beloved Jamaican team. Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Posted June 11, 2006 Zigangirova from Kazakhstan. Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Posted June 11, 2006 Radziewics from Poland. Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Posted June 11, 2006 Alexandra Kosteniuk from Russia. Hers is the website where I got the pics. Kosteniuk is a top-rated woman's player. 2500+ rating. Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Posted June 11, 2006 Seps from Switzerland. Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Posted June 11, 2006 Worth another picture. Seps is top board for Switzerland. Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Posted June 11, 2006 Anna Zatonskih, top board for USA. I know Anna personally, and she's already beaten me in a chess game. I visited Anna and her husband at her apartment in Bowling Green, Ohio. She has since divorced and moved to another State. Quote
Swinging Swede Posted June 11, 2006 Report Posted June 11, 2006 If I may jump in here ... one of the gals above is Australian No. 3, WIM Arianne Caoili, 2169 who has caught a lot of attention lately. Worth fighting for apparently. To the right in the picture above is English grandmaster Danny Gormally, who, during the Chess Olympiad in Turin recently, knocked down Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian (No. 3 in the world) to the left, when he saw the latter dancing salsa with Ms. Caoili. Some say that it's the best thing to have happened to chess in a long time! Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Posted June 11, 2006 Hey Swede, Is that really true? I knew there were rumors to that effect, but it seemed that they were denied. The rumors claimed that Gourmally had been sent back home owing to the fact the rest of the Armenian team wanted a piece of him! Can you imagine Levon Aronian doing a salsa? Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Posted June 11, 2006 Can you introduce me to Ms. Bosnia? Here's another picture of her. Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Posted June 11, 2006 And another one. She looks really serious. Chess is a brutal game. No room for weakies! Quote
Aggie87 Posted June 11, 2006 Report Posted June 11, 2006 And another one. She looks really serious. Chess is a brutal game. No room for weakies! Being the chess afficianado that I am ( ) I believe that is the sister of the one you originally posted. Once is Sanja and the other is Mira... Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Posted June 11, 2006 Very possible. I was just going by last name. Thanks for the correction, AGG. The two women did look different.... Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Posted June 11, 2006 Slovakian team at the Olympics. Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Posted June 11, 2006 Being the chess afficianado that I am ( ) I believe that is the sister of the one you originally posted. Once is Sanja and the other is Mira... Okay, here's another one of Mira then.... Quote
Swinging Swede Posted June 11, 2006 Report Posted June 11, 2006 The Gormally incident seems to be true, at least it has been widely reported that way. And Aronian is terribly gifted, he can probably learn a lot of things well! **************************** The Times June 10, 2006 Love me for my moves on the board, says chess queen By Raymond Keene and Rajeev Syal BEFORE this week Arianne Caoili was a beautiful but little-known competitor on the international chess circuit. That all changed when The Times broke the story of how a British grandmaster attacked the Armenian World No 3 when he was dancing with her in an Italian nightclub during a tournament. Now, in her first interview since the incident on the dancefloor of Hiroshima Mon Amour in Turin, Ms Caoili, 19, is keen to address a few misconceptions. Despite being described around the world as the “Kournikova of Chess”, she said: “I want to be known as the Sharapova of chess, rather than the Kournikova — known for both my brains and beauty.” She loves the game because it is “fighting for the mere pleasure of fighting”, adding: “There is nothing like arguing for the mere pleasure of arguing. It is my weakness to sometimes start a random friction between myself and another to test reactions, psyche, get amused, or simply to relax.” Ms Caoili started playing aged 5 and took up chess seriously when she went to live in the Philippines, her father’s home. At 14, when she stopped playing to concentrate on schoolwork, she was an international master who had competed in Europe, Canada and the United States. She recently took up the game again and now hopes to study law and international relations at Oxford University or in Germany. But her desire to be taken seriously has not stopped her throwing herself into modelling and taking up singing. “I am currently recording songs for my first album,” she said. “And I am looking for a recording company.” Ms Caoili’s website lists her personal interests as, among other things, “philosophy”, “getting up to no good” and “fine food (and fine boys)”. It was apparently a fondness for Latin dancing that started the trouble during the Chess Olympiad in Turin last week. Ms Caoili claims that she told Danny Gormally, the England No 10, that she wanted to be “just friends”. Later that evening, she began doing the salsa with Levon Aronian, Armenia’s star player, when there was a commotion. “Suddenly there was a scrum and Lev was on the floor,” she said. “Fortunately Lev was not badly hurt. Danny might have punched the wrong chessplayer, since I was supposed to be with the young German grandmaster Naiditsch that evening. He was my official escort,” she added. She believes that Mr Gormally, 30, whom she has known for years, may have been drinking.The next morning the England team captain apologised to the leader of the Armenian delegation, who is also the country’s Defence Minister. Mr Aronian enjoys star status at home, where chess is a national obsession, similar to David Beckham in England. He also accepted the apology. However, when Mr Gormally went out for coffee, he was apparently attacked by Armenian chess players bent on revenge. He returned home before the tournament’s end. Friends of Mr Gormally said that he had developed an e-mail relationship with Ms Caoili. On her website is a message from a Daniel Gormally quoting the Stevie Wonder song My Cherie Amour. It says: “mycherieamour, lovely as a summers day, mycherie amour, distant as the milky way . . . oh sh** where was i? lol. for my good friend ari may the sun always guide her to her destination.” Ms Caoili declined to say whether she was in a relationship with Mr Aronian. However, her mother, Annette Caoili, told an Australian newspaper that they were romantically involved. Mr Gormally declined to return calls or requests for an interview. Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted June 12, 2006 Author Report Posted June 12, 2006 I'm picking out some shots from a Dutch photographer's website. He calls Sharevich, a "photographer's dream." Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted June 12, 2006 Author Report Posted June 12, 2006 Irina Krush from USA. Quote
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