For those of you who still don't know Betsy Dynako is a brilliant photographer. She has covered chess events for several years and in a recent blog entry she explains her Chess Life cover photo of U.S. Champion Hikaru Nakamura.



"I felt like I might as well have said, “Pick your nose, it will look great. Trust Me.” Luckily Nakamura indeed trusted me and settled into the shot. I like this shot more than any of the others I posed of him that night. I feel like I bonded with my subject in that moment, and I was able to capture a winner’s smile that conveyed the relief of knowing the relentless hard work was over and well worth it."