Carmen Kass is not only one of the top ten paid supermodels in the world, she is also the president of the Estonian Chess Federation. She lives in New York, but she is considering running for the European Parliament.

Maria Manakova, the "Anna Kournikova of chess," poses nude in magazines and comes to tournaments in skimpy clothing. She was women's champion of Yugoslavia and ranked in the top 20 women in the world in the 1990s.

In a recent interview she poured scorn on female players in "dirty, baggy trousers", urging them to wear miniskirts instead to attract sponsors.