Grandmaster Valery Salov with Grandmaster Walter Browne giving live commentary of Khalifman-Akopian game in progress

Grandmaster Valery Salov with Grandmaster Walter Browne

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 poses with a journalist for a photograph
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

Here are links:

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

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