Oh, I know I shouldn't do this, I know I shouldn't. I'll probably be really sorry for this tomorrow morning.
Time and chess wait for no man - well, something like that. I know only too well the sad truth of that maxim whenever I accidentally look in the mirror at myself these days - of course, I'm not a man, but the sentiment is the same, alas... My goddess, to see super hunk GM Vladimir Akopian reduced to such straits - well, perhaps it's time I hung up my chess pieces, darlings.
(Photo upper left: VA at the 5th Gib-tel Masters, January, 2007; photo upper right: VA circa 1998)
It seems just a few years ago, back in August, 1999 when VA was one of the hottest properties in Las Vegas during the 1999 FIDE World Chess Championship at Caesar's Palace. I was there, panting after him - discreetly, of course. He was SO gorgeous - thick black hair, flashing dark eyes, slim, lithe, powerful, dangerous - and those fingers - oh my, those fingers when he picked up a pawn and moved it forward ever so gently yet firmly, just so...be still my heart.
Perhaps we could take up a collection and buy VA a year's supply of "Just for Men," the hair coloring agent that pretends not to be a hair coloring agent - oh, and a year's supply of Gillette razors - whatever the latest whiz-bang model is (I think it has five blades now, it shaves you all at once...)
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At least his hair line hasn't changed it's location, unlike most of us.
The gray? One word - distinguished. At least that's what us men keep telling ourselves :-)
It's true - he still has a lot of hair! I don't think the grey makes Akopian look distinguished, though, there's too much grey. Now, if it was just a touch at the temples, you know, sort of "Cary Grantish" - that would be sexy. But as it is right now, the grey just makes him look old. Perhaps a different kind of haircut would help, too. It would also help if it didn't look like V.A. was chewing on his finger in that photo!
P.S. I really meant to say that the curent photo makes Akopian look like he's picking his nose - but surely he wouldn't do such a thing, never ever ever, not in 1000 years.
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