NATALIA POGONINA

Her husband posted on the first page of the thread.

in answer to your first question:

it's all on the page in front of you.

in answer to your second question:

it's all on the page in front of you. however, you would need to know what the concept of sublimation is.

in answer to your third question:

in reality it's not ! that's the point.

Freud made it up ! his hypothesis of sublimation was an attempt to substantiate some mistaken assumptions in some parts of his flawed theories on how the mind works. Jung was pointing that out.

thanks for your interest , hope that helps clarify   :)

The post above hardly clarifies anything, and reads terribly.

An Administrator of roughly eight different (and thoroughly exciting) Chess.com Teams, starts a racy thread.  Then he flails about (repeatedly) when it doesn't attract the kind of attention he feels is his due.

Did I miss something here?  Freud and Jung, notwithstanding?

Wow!  Never would have expected a post like this from a waffllemaster. 

Better cover up if your picture is taken!  Gimme a break.

This, too, is shit.  Your pecker can get hard without you having to share it with the object of your desire.

This thread appears to be zeroing in on the real nitty gritty.

No mincing of words from those Mid-West, straight talking chaps.  

Onward!

Hey I'm not pretty.

Hey man, I meant no harm.  Continue to have much success!!

 YES !  ... and all due to a lack of proper interpretation of the facts.

but thanks for the compliment about the teams, much appreciated.

For £999.00, my wife will also offer a "Meet and Play Ellen" deal consisting of "dinner, friendly chess game, autographs, pics together, report on Facebook.com (optional)"

She's not a WGM, but she is a good cook ;p

Isn't this fine too?

Seems like give and take to me. She draws a line somewhere, and where she draws it is her prerogative.

I've not seen her being rude to any of her fans, which is more than can be said for many people who post sexy pictures then complain when people mention them. As for Natalia, she moderates comments on her album. That's all. She doesn't complain, criticise, say "Go away and stop leering, creeps! I demand you respect only my chess skill and not notice my body which I have cheerfully presented alongside it". No, she responds positively to some comments, ignores others, and deletes a few.

As far as I can see, this is perfectly decent behaviour, and I salute her.

On a side-note, though, I am suprised at myself for not having previously noticed that her Chessgames.com profile picture has her in her underwear on the floor. This is usually the sort of thing I would notice. Instead, I previously completely missed this, as my eye was immediately caught by her Sicilian Dragon games instead

I'm nominating this thread starter for a Chess.com Troll of the Month!

I don't know why, but I'm still nominating this thread starter for a Chess.com Troll of the Year 2013.

Yeah, I was being hard on her.  Seems to be the norm for young female chess players.  Maybe the males will get into it too some day.  Carlsen did some modeling right?

Interesting she calls herself a grandmaster everywhere.  FIDE doesn't: http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=4147855

I think other organizations offer grandmaster titles... which I suppose is why some authors/trainers take the effort to mention they're international grandmasters i.e. FIDE grandmasters.

Pogonina and all the other young female chess players who pose half dressed didn't "really" do modelling either.

Try to find pictures of a young Krammnik or Ivanchuk in a speedo or spread out on the floor wearing some designer jeans... that's the difference.

Jason, am I reading your FIDE link wrong or doesn't it correctly state she has a woman Grand Master title?

Or were you simply making the distinction between the regular grandmaster and woman grandmaster titles?

Just trying to understand.

Yeah, she's a WGM, her page says 'Grandmaster, Olympic Champion' rather than making the distinction.

I think its because of this:

Grandmaster of Russia (2006)  

Not FIDE, but her national federation, as you were guessing (I guess that that was your guess).

It´s okay to make the distinction, since WGM and GM are different.

performance required for a WGM norm is 2400.

performance required for a GM norm is 2600.

elo required for the GM title is 2500.

elo required for the WGM title is 2300.

Ah I see, wasn't aware of 'Grandmaster of Russia'.

Well... so far you haven't nominated the OP on the official nominations thread yet. Your nomination will only be counted if you post it there.