Almira Skripchenko has final tabled a WSOP event and the WPT Invitational, but before she became a serious poker player Skripchenko was an incredibly successful professional chess player, earning the ...

Almira “Chessbaby” Skripchenko is a woman of many talents. She appears to do well with anything she sets her mind to, and, in recent times, has increasingly become a great threat at the poker table.

With the success of China's women chess players in recent years, China is becoming an ideal place for foreign players to improve their game, said a top European player. "To discover the secret behind ...

Irina Krush the youngest player ever to win the US Women's championship defeated the French Women's Champion Almira Skripchenko 1.5-0.5 in the ACCOONA French-American Women's Chess Championship in New ...

Two World-class female chess players, Almira Skripchenko and Dinara Khaziyeva, dominated the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational in Los Angeles this weekend en route to making the final table.

Jovanka Houska, the sole English representative defeated WGM Almira Skripchenko one of the leading lights in women’s chess in the first round of the FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship being held at ...