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Babes AhBoon | 23 May 2007 06:37 am

Most Photogenic Chess Players

The Torino Chess Olympiad 2006 was held in Turin (Turino), Italy from May 20 to 6 June 2006. If you are ineterested on the results, you may check it on Wikipedia (The 37th Chess Olympiad), they have pretty good coverage about the tournament. My interest, of course was focus on other aspect.

Most Photogenic Chess Players around the WorldFrom the large collection of Pufichek Chesspics albums of players of the Torino Chess Olympiad 2006, they had selected a few for Photogenic Collection. The photos were posted for voting from May 24 to June 24, 2006, generating enormous interest from all sides of the globe, with over 10,000 people actively taking part in the voting.


Here are the top 3 photos that generated the heatest debate and active voting:


Chess01

Alexandra Kosteniuk, Russia
rating: 11623 with 2707 votes


Chess02

Sanja Dedijer, Bosnia Herzegovina
rating: 11275 with 2553 votes


Chess03

Mariam Mansur, UAE
rating: 10096 with 2272 votes

And here are some other great and pretty chess players around the world. Who said only Nerds play chess??


Chess04

France - Sophie Milliet


Chess05

Russia - Tatiana Kosintseva


Chess06

Argentina - Maria Belen Sarquis


Chess08

USA - Rusudan Goletiani



Chess09

Qatar (men) - Zhu Chen


Chess10

Canada - Dinara Khaziyeva


Chess11

El Salvador - Sonia Zepeda


Chess18

El Salvador - Sonia Zepeda


Chess12

Italy A - Eleonora Ambrosi


Chess13

Malaysia - Khye Theng Wan


Chess07

Poland - Iweta Radziewicz


Chess14

China - Shen Yang


Chess15

Hong Kong - Anya Corke


Chess16

Kazakhstan - Aketayeva


Chess17

Bulgaria - Stefanova


Chess19

Georgia - Khurtsidze

Source Chess Pics via [Hemmy.Net]

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6 Responses to “Most Photogenic Chess Players”

  1. on 23 May 2007 at 7:29 am 1.reply said …

    they all hv dark circles haha too much thnking.

  2. on 29 May 2007 at 12:35 am 2.fred durst said …

    THERE ALL UGLY

  3. on 29 May 2007 at 10:42 am 3.ckyeo said …

    Lim peh wan to go bosnia play chess!

  4. on 06 Jun 2007 at 2:09 pm 4.astigg.com said …

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