I didn’t want to go there, but as I was continuing to read "Chess Bitch," it turns out that the female chess masters are not only uniformly young, but they are also all quite hot. Here’s the reigning women’s chess champion, Alexandra Kosteniuk:
Honestly that picture doesn’t do her justice. You should check out the 8gigs of cheesecake photos of herself on her website. (speaking of which, I just made a note to put more cheesecake photos of myself on my website)
Basically, back home in Russia, Grandmaster Kosteniuk is known as much for her work as a swimsuit model as being a terrifyingly intense chess player.
There’s also an extensive article about chess playing women on the Science and Supermodels blog, and a ranked gallery of the 2006 chess olympiad women. Perusing the ranked gallery, you will notice that the highest chess ranking (2450) corresponds to the user-chosen most photogenic.
I wish that we could keep this discussion of women in chess on a more intellectual level. Instead of talking about their hotness, we could analyze their comparative playing styles and preferred openings. But honestly, neither you nor I would understand any of it.
