Chess is in a lot of the news lately, with Bobby Fischer leaving Japan and getting into Iceland and Garry Kasparov leaving chess and gettng into politics. I have mentioned before the similarities of chess and trading and how chess can be great training for the markets. Here are some famous chess players who trade:

• GM Ilya Gurevich is an options trader on the Pacific Stock Exchange.
• US Women's Champion Anna Hahn is a trader for a hedge fund.
• USCF Executive Director Mike Cavallo had his own futures trading company, Cavallo Capital Management.
• Grandmaster Ron Henley is an active trader in New York.
• And IM Norman Weinstein was a very successful currency trader.
• International Grandmaster Nigel Davis is a trader.
• Former US Women's Champion Anjelina Belakovskaia traded currencies and stocks before becoming a professional chess player.