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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

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:

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

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

Hope he is not receiving assistance through his antenna!

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