This is the silliest thing I've ever heard of. Chess is chess and sex is sex, and both are wonderful activities, but they don't have anything to do with each other. Jeez!

@Berliner
I m pretty sure Reuben Fine(strong master and psychoanalyst) would disagree, as he thought that chessplayers fulfill a secret masturbation fantasy.

By the way everything is in some sense connected to sex.
Amen

I agree with Berliner : this is completely ridiculous.

Regarding the tagline, "because chess is sexy":

Show don't tell.

thats completely against chess .... we are not looser , we dont need to show those pictures to attract people in the game ....

American idiocy! is not the first, not the last! they look stupid on which to sell his latest miserable idiot "product", haha​​!

Shouldn't that chick in the pink underpants be holding up a "Chess in Schools and Communities" poster?

*snort* *eye roll*

You know, because the majority of people interested in chess are school-aged kids?

/end sarcasm

For chess to have any chance of becoming more popular, it needs to be promoted by people who understand chess and the target audience. The people who are using sex to promote chess seem to be more interested in turning a quick buck than anything else.

Complete degeneration.
But it's only a silly little girl showing the goodies, she'll be gone soon.

Well, the position the nice girl is playing is taken from a famous Pillsbury-Lasker-Game. Black plays Rc3 to a3!! and wins by a very beautiful combination.
So the producer of the calender surely put some time and thought in the chess-theme. Let´s not be too critical!

For me, all these ladies are fat and old.

This all has the feel of sheer desperation. Just let chess be chess. *Sigh*

Carlsen fans will like this.

Very interesting! But I would prefer a naked male on the calendar instead.

chess and women in general, two things that have nothing to do with each other.

chess is cool, women are hot, and a knight is a knight

Great picture...chess needs to find a way to keep the huge number of kids into chess in the schools connected to the game...Of course there is no substitute for a professional level of chess with enough money of several dozen people in the USA to do well financially.

Jennifer Shahade is LESBIAN?????!

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The worst article I saw in the whole history of Chessvibes. Women are fighting to have more space into the world of chess and you came and post this thing. Oh, my. This happens when people just want to get readers and are not interested in the facts behind the news. Why are you posting this? What are women? Just a naked body to put into the marketing world next to any object?

English is not my native language and I can't find enough adjectives to talk about this. Nonsense.

Why are You plugging these people's products? Besides, there is really nothing new in trying to combine the seeming opposites sexiness and chess - Kevin Spraggett (kevinspargget.blogpost.com) runs a great blog combining both in an intelligent and ironic way for years. Plus oodles of other instances, like fe Peter Kruchem's chess pin-ups. So what?

The whole idea of "popularizing" chess by dumbing it down is absurd. Teach chess in schools, and it will be more popular. The game itself is quite demanding - needs a strong will to self improvement- teach that and chess and we will get somewhere.....not by the umpteenth attempt to make chess palatable to a mainly apathic and passive TV audience....anyway, it is steadily gaining ground on the web....

Teh way to

That show is terrible. Dumbed down chess commentary to drive away those interested in chess, and nothing interesting enough to keep the attention of those just curious about the game. Additionally, Shahade's dulcet tones don't help.

The BBC's Master game inspired many people to take up the game precisely because it credited its audience with some intelligence.

Pawn movies next?!

in the light of article's headtitle, we lack of photos here.

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I'm sure the USCF is "oh-so-proud" of their online CL editor engaging in such "family-unfriendly" activites.

I read the rules, and couldn't find ONE THING in my post that would justify it being deleted. Whoever is responsible for this, shall re-read the rules himself. Seriously.

Why can't we all just lighten up and enjoy the fact there's a damn hot woman next to a board???

Also to Pablo's comment, showing the female form isn't automatically degrading, this is clearly done tongue in cheek and in a positive way rather than some sleazy pin up calendar.

Finally anyone who tries to make some sarcastic comment about chess not relating to sex or vice-versa is being completely disingenuous. Sex permeates everything, especially a game which is an expression of power, even if it is intellectual rather than physical. Shabalov cracked me up in an interview when he said, ‘In most games, I am thinking about girls for about fifty to seventy-five percent of the time, another fifteen percent goes to time management, and with what’s left over, I am calculating.’