Bobby Fischer - Photo Book by Harry Benson (Powerhouse Books)

Harry Benson’s rare, exclusive photos of the elusive and controversial chess genius Bobby Fischer taken during the historic World Chess Championship match in Iceland in 1972 are collected by powerHouse Books for the first time, in Bobby Fischer.

See the video of the book on this page:
http://www.rupamedia.com/?p=921

Almira Skripchenko and Alexandra Kosteniuk - Battle of Chess Beauties

Two of the most beautiful Chess players - Almira Skripchenko and Alexandra Kosteniuk battle it out in an interesting game of wits.

Watch the game here:

Magnus Carlsen vs Hou Yifan

Carlsen vs Yifan. Sounds like fantasy to you? Well, they may actually play a couple of years from now considering the growing strength of Yifan, but until then watch a game that they played in 2008 at Cap d'Agde.

Watch the video on youtube here:
http://youtu.be/71X80RuxxPI

Mouse Trap Chess

Black opened with the Hamster gambit opening and white responded with the mouse trap.

Anthony Wiring Chess

Hope he is not receiving assistance through his antenna!

Hou Yifan beats Judit Polgar!

Still a teenager, but already the World Women's Champion, the Chinese star Hou Yifan leads with none other than Michael Adams at the Gibraltar Chess Tournament. Behind her are several International stars including former World Championship contenders!

She beat Le Qiang Leim in the previous round, but what caught the whole World's attention was her win against Judit Polgar. We have to go back decades to find a loss by Judit against another female player!

Rankings after Round 8 (From Chess-results)

1	GM	Hou Yifan	CHN	2605	6.5	2859.0
2	GM	Adams Michael	ENG	2724	6.5	2843.0
3	GM	Short Nigel D	ENG	2677	6.0	2790.0
4	GM	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	AZE	2747	6.0	2778.0
5	GM	Sasikiran Krishnan	IND	2700	6.0	2750.0
6	GM	Almasi Zoltan	HUN	2717	6.0	2748.0
7	GM	Howell David W L	ENG	2603	6.0	2737.0
8	GM	Movsesian Sergei	ARM	2700	6.0	2726.0
9	GM	Gopal G N	IND	2566	6.0	2720.0
10	GM	Svidler Peter	RUS	2749	6.0	2714.0