Our roving correspondent Anna Dergatscheva has sent us a new batch of pictures
from Moscow, which we are eager to share with you.
Kramnik with wife
GM Alexander Motylev with chess "groupies"
The Ukraine duo: Vassily Ivanchuk, Ruslan Ponomariov
The world's youngest GM: Sergei Karjakin, 12
Alexandra Kosteniuk with an admirer
From the game Radjabov (right) vs Morozevich
Two unhappy GMs: Garry Kasparov, Nigel Short
Viktor Kortschnoi, flown in to support the World team
Looking for rare Russian chess books?
For those of you who care enough to scroll all the way down to here: the picture
at the top of the page is not of Vladimir Kramnik but his brother Eugene.
