World Chess Players Beauty Contest

This site is so odd, first off, the photos are tiny. Second, who knows if they really play chess or just want their photo online ? Oddly too, I notice that they are all women.

Since the creation of the site we have succeeded in achieving rather significant results: the number of participants has gone up to almost 100, that of registered users has exceeded 2,500 and that of daily visitors varies from 500 to 600, on average. We believe that this is not too bad for a project which has so far developed owing exclusively to the enthusiasm of its participants.

Fortunately, we, who believe that chess can be not only serious and tiresome work but also just fun, are not two few, indeed!
Meanwhile, we would like to reward the winners of our contest in a worthy manner and also to put the project on a solid and permanent footing, involving a continuing supply of new pictures, interviews of the participants, interactive polls, etc. All this obviously implies that there should be a serious titled sponsor. Unfortunately, we have not yet succeeded in finding one.

We are confident of bringing you joy with new pictures and we hope that our First World Chess beauty Contest will proceed to develop successfully.

Thank you very much for your understanding.
World Chess Players Beauty Contest

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