Under the Volcano

Four-time Women’s World Chess Champion 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) under the Koryaksky volcano, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka Krai, Russian Far East, where, from September 17–19, 2016, she starred as a guest of honour on the 3rd China–Russia Junior Match of Friendship. Posing with her are, from top to bottom, Grandmaster Ernesto Kazbekovich Inarkiev, Grandmaster Sergei Yuryevich Shipov, and her mother 王茜 (Wáng Qiàn). Photos: Anastasiya Baradacheva.