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Chess news: Chess World No. 1 and … Fashion Model? -- In what undoubtedly is a first, the world’s top-ranked chess player, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, who is 19, has taken on a second career: fashion model. Wednesday, G-Star RAW, a Dutch clothing company that has three stores in Manhattan, rolled out an advertising campaign featuring Carlsen and the actress Liv Tyler. NRK, Norways’s public broadcasting company, has photographs from the campaign and the photo shoot at which Carlsen posed for them. The Web site also includes a short video. According to the Web site, Carlsen said, “I think people will be surprised to see me like this. Surely just as surprised as I was when I was picked for this.” As part of the fashion campaign, Carlsen will play a chess ... Bobby Fischer Is Exhumed -- The remains of Bobby Fischer, the American chess champion, were exhumed Sunday night in the cemetery of Laugardaelir Church in Iceland, according to a report in The Reykjavik Grapevine. The exhumation was ordered by the Icelandic Supreme Court last month to determine if Fischer is the father of Jinky Young, a 9-year-old Filipino girl. Ólafur Helgi Kjartansson, the sheriff of Selfoss, the town near the cemetery; Rev. Kristinn Ágúst Fridfinnsson, the pastor of Selfoss; members of the local parish; medical staff and several other lawmen were at the exhumation to oversee it, according to the Grapevine. Fischer’s grave has already been put back as it was, according to reports. Fischer ... Fide's Grand Prix plans scuppered by withdrawal of Magnus Carlsen -- The world chess body Fide's plans for a Grand Prix tournament circuit were badly hit when its status as a world chess championship eliminator was downgraded, the world No1 Magnus Carlsen and other top Western chess players withdrew and all six events had to be played in the former USSR. Armenia's world No5, Levon Aronian, won the series. Fide's women's Grand Prix, in contrast, has been notably successful. Most leading women including Westerners are taking part, there is a wider range of venues and the series will directly qualify a world title challenger. China's Hou Yifan and India's Humpy Koneru were the favourites, but after the fourth event (of six) finished ... | |