Alexander Khalifman poses with a journalist for a photograph

The occasion was a press conference given after Khalifman won the World Chess Championship.

This picture was taken by Sam Sloan.

This is one of several photographs which were taken by Sam Sloan during the 1999 FIDE World Chess Championship in Las Vegas. Here are some other photographs:

• Polina Tsedenova of Kalmykia
• Grandmaster Amador Rodriguez of Cuba talks to Alexander Khalifman just after Khalifman has won the FIDE World Chess Championship
• Khalifman is interviewed by the press
• Photo taken from behind of Khalifman with FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov at a press conference
• Grandmaster Valery Salov with Grandmaster Walter Browne giving live commentary of Khalifman-Akopian game in progress
• Marina Makarytcheva - NTV-Plus Sport from Russia interviews Khalifman
• Marina Makarytcheva with her trusty cameraman Igor
• Marina Makarytcheva and her trusty cameraman Igor with Khalifman
• Fide Presidential Board meets, with Ilyumzhinov at the head of the table
• Another view of the Fide Presidential Board
• Lower end of the table - Fide Presidential Board

• Shamema and the Camel
• Individual photographs of 73 of the players who competed in the FIDE World Championship in Las Vegas
• Three Polgar Sisters with Shamema
• FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov takes the hard line
• Check to Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu for $138,065 has bounced