Vishy Anand, classical and rapid chess world champion
Magnus Carlsen, at one stage just 1.5 points behind Anand on the Elo scale
Judit Polgar, an imaginative and very dangerous rapid player
Alexander Morozevich, whose style nobody understands but everybody fears
Anand plays a simultaneous exhibition in Mainz, which turned into a record
hunt
Anand conceded just two draws on 40 boards – breaking his previous
38-2 record in Mainz
Sheer joy: the winner of the Mini-Ordix Dennis Wagner
One of the world's most dangerous rapid players: Hikaru Nakamura from USA
The Ordix Open winner Ian Nepomniachtchi, Russia, with Pavel Eljanov, Ukraine
Just a really nice person: WGM and IM Viktorija Cmilyte of Lithuania
The center of attention in the current world of chess: 17-year-old Magnus
Carlsen
Summit meeting – many believe this will be the setup in a world championship
match
Just a few more points and a few more years – then I will be king
The little
girl from Kramatorsk – now an elegant young lady
Signing poster for fans – the Freerider from Malibu
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk with her daughter
Francesca Maria (one year three months)
How does she do it? Anand consistently failed to beat Judit in winning positions
The joy of chess – Viktorija Čmilytė, two-time national
champion of Lithuania
One more of the former wonder boy today
"My relation with chess is simple," says Fred Lucas. "I'm a photographer who is very fond of the game, loves the atmosphere at tournaments – it's if you can really feel all the ideas coming up on all those boards – and I love to make pictures, especially with available light. What I like most when photographing chess players is to get their emotions that are otherwise hard to see, because life immediately proceeds to the next moment. Before the start of a game most players are busy with themselves, concentrating and some give you the impression that they really don't want to pay attention to anything else than the game to come."
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