The world's most handsome GM?

[MJMcCready]

Has anyone ever been described as the world's most handsome GM?

[John Upham]

Has anyone ever been described as the world's most handsome GM?

Yes.

[Joey Stewart]

I seem to remember Magnus doing a short stint as a male model so presumably whoever hired hired him decided there was sufficient handsomeness for the job

[John Upham]

I'm sure Kevin Spraggett would love to be so listed.

Take care when inspecting his web site.

[Matt Mackenzie]

Yasser Seirawan was once highly rated in this department, or so I am reliably informed anyway.

[John Upham]

Yasser Seirawan was once highly rated in this department, or so I am reliably informed anyway.

Are you restricting your request to gentlemen GMs or would you like to include lady GMs?

I believe that there was a web site which specialised in the latter which had nought to do with the aforementioned Canadian GM.

[Geoff Chandler]

Don't go any further John, this thread is a trap. The pious and perfect are hovering over their keyboards like grey-faced vultures just waiting for someone to put their foot in it. I'll PM you my answer.

[MJMcCready]

There may be some truth in that but it won't be coming from me.

[MJMcCready]

I seem to remember Magnus doing a short stint as a male model so presumably whoever hired hired him decided there was sufficient handsomeness for the job

Yes same here. Did we ever have such a thing in England? Hard to believe. We must have had pretty boys or something of that perceived ilk?

[MJMcCready]

Has anyone ever been described as the world's most handsome GM?

Yes.

Care to name who it was?

[John Upham]

Has anyone ever been described as the world's most handsome GM?

Yes.

Care to name who it was?

I have no idea but I'm confident that someone somewhere has found the time in their life to describe someone as the world's most handsome GM.

[Geoff Chandler]

Hi John,

I too thought, what a strange topic, but have since discovered that this has been raised on a few other forums, and here;
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-to ... ss-players Max Warmerdam was put forward as 'Possibly the most handsome chess player of all time.'

[MJMcCready]

Strange topic? Apologies for my light-heartedness. Could we branch off into a sub-topic entitled 'The ECF Foum's most handsome member and encourage pictures to be sent in for judging?

[MJMcCready]

We would need to appoint female members as judges -if we even have any!

[Kevin Thurlow]

"We would need to appoint female members as judges -if we even have any!"

Are you planning to exclude the male homosexual forumites? They are entitled to an opinion.