Is Hou Yifan only top 100 GM with non-chess career?

I didn't know Carlsen is a model. I've got to assume his modelling was launched off the back of his chess achievements and world record as the youngest GM, and I'm assuming he's not working 40 hours a week as a model. But good on him.

Karjakin is youngest gm, but being wc for long is pretty cool already on its own. Funny always thought karjakin was Russian.

weird, I googled magnus carlsen model, and read an article that said "Dubbed the "Mozart of chess", Carlsen sprung into the history books early when he became the youngest grandmaster ever at the age of 13. By age 19, he was rated the world's No. 1 player."

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/magnus-carlsen-the-male-model-captivating-the-chess-world-20131114-2xhy8.html

Unless carlsen did break that world record and karjakin broke it a few weeks after.

McShane works in finance/trading and is currently no.64 in the world, he also writes the chess column in the Spectator magazine
( see https://www.spectator.co.uk/category/life/chess/ )

As a junior he was insanely talented - he won the world U10 two years up as an U8 - while also down-to-earth and not at all arrogant, by all reports this is unchanged.

@piscatorox

He writes the Spectator column? Really? I thought Raymond Keene writes it. I know because I won a bottle of Ardbeg single malt whiskey four times (four bottles, that is) solving his weekly puzzles, and consequently blame him for my becoming a whisky lover.

@nayf The penguin was retired about two months ago from both the Spectator and the Times. As a result the quality of the Spectator column has got a lot better.

I read this in the Wiki bio of Botvinnik:

"Working as an electrical engineer and computer scientist at the same time, he was one of the very few players who achieved distinction in another career while playing top-class competitive chess. He was also a pioneer of computer chess."

And for some reason the McShane story made me dream of Sean Connery. How weird.

@piscatorox

I see. Keene's column was necessarily aimed at a broad audience (so perhaps less satisfying to experts) and consisted mainly of the weekly puzzle. I stopped submitting when they changed the prize from whisky to beer; I guess they lost Ardbeg's sponsorship.

I lost my faith in British magazines when I read "China did not invite Japan to their victory over Japan celebration"

Probably absolutely normal news, but I thought it was still kind of weird