Russia-2 TV Nominates Natalia Pogonina “Girl of the Month”
A leading Russian TV channel, “Russia-2”, has a sports program
called “All included”. Unsurprisingly, one of their most popular
projects is the “Girl of the month” contest. Most nominees are
well-known female athletes, while some artists are also invited from time
to time.
The reigning Olympic women’s chess champion and Russian women’s
chess champion Natalia Pogonina was recently featured in the program. Apart
from the official images we are able to provide you with bonus material
provided to us by Pogonina.com:






Photographer: Alexei
Trunov
Natalia
Pogonina (born March 9, 1985) is a chess woman grandmaster and one of
the best female chess players in the world. Since 2004 she has been a member
of Team Russia and is currently the Olympic Chess Champion and Russian Women's
Chess Champion.
Woman Grandmaster (WGM), three-times European champion (U16, twice U18),
bronze prize winner at the World Championship (U18) and European Women's
Championship, winner of the gold medal at the 1st International Mind Sports
Games, co-winner of the 2008 Student World Championship and Russian Superfinal-2010,
and #1 at multiple prestigious international tournaments (2005 – Bykova
Memorial, 2007 – Rudenko memorial, 2009 – Moscow Open, etc.).
Ranked as 3rd most successful female chess player in the world in 2009 by
the Association of Chess Professionals. In 2011 Natalia became the only
chess player in the world to simultaneously win the Eurocup and European
Team Chess Championship and in 2013 - the only person to hold the individual
and team Russian Champion titles. She was runner-up at Women's World Team
Chess Championship-2011 and earned the bronze medal in 2013.

Want to see the competition Natalia faced? Well, click on the banner above
– at your own peril – and try to find our chess model
among the beauties shown on the page. To make it easier for you here a tip:
start from the bottom of the page and click on the thumbnails to get larger
images, which you can examine with greater care. You can also go to this
page, where you will find names and bios of the models. To our chagrin
the videos do not seem to be currently working. We would be eternally grateful
to anyone who tells us how to access them.