What makes you choose the icon for your chess account?

I chose my leopard because I like animals...

It fits my stupid nickname.

favorite bird with the colors of my country= belgium

Best thing it has happened to me.

The original illustration of Alice queening in "Through the Looking Glass" is objectively the best image for a chess player named Alison.

I was Leica Edit for the Untalkative Bunny TV series. The bad guy was a nasty blue emu. So that's my avatar and online persona.

Mine is a Hawaiian sculpture at the Louvre. I find it adorable, and the avatar size is like 64x64, so it has to be something simple.

I simply picked the knight instead of my face, because the knight is a tricky chess piece, and I find it cool to use.

didn't want to post a personal pic

I chose mine because I like chess.

I choose mine because I love terminator & I feel as though I'm a terminator while playing.

I change my profile picture almost as often as i change my underwear.  So for now....its because i appreciate the beauty of the big cats.

Mine is of Mitsuha which is one of the two lead characters from my favourite anime movie ever, Kimi no Na wa. Also my theme is from this movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzXVMjsZloE&t=182s 

I enjoyed breaking bad and Walter White, so I used a meme of that in my picture. 

Anish Giri is my favorite chess player.

The major skill thing I've done in the 2000's has been to learn to play piano and pass auditions for major recitals - in my avatar I'm playing Chopin's Prelude in E Minor at the ACE Recital of the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.  So, since I hope to achieve good things here, I think the piano avatar is a good luck charm.  I've also had piano-playing chess opponents here who discuss piano with me because they see the logo.