The second and third weekend of November, the Panamanian Women Chess Championship Finals took place in Panama-city. The Championship Finals was a 6 player round-robin, played the 14,15,20,21 and 22 of November. Five of the finalists came from the qualification tournament and, together, with the Panamanian 2008 champion, Betty Arosemena, fought for the 2009 chess title. Betty Arosemena, 2008 Panama...
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The World Blitz Chess Championship that took place on November 16-18, 2009 in Moscow has come to its end. Magnus Carlsen won this event with a fantastic result - 31 out of 42! That's 3 points ahead of Viswanathan Anand who took the silver medal of the championship! In the last 4 days I played 59 blitz-games! Since just before the world blitz championship, on November 15, I took part in another strong...
The World Blitz Championship at the Tal Memorial in Moscow has just concluded, with Magnus Carlsen first, Viswanathan Anand second, and Sergey Karjakin third. Carlsen dominated the field today and the three have led since yesterday. See the final table at ChessBase for full results. The Tal Memorial Blitz event is for many the highlight of this wonderful tournament, which this year is among the strongest...
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The 3rd Asian Indoor Games have been held in Vietnam, from October 30th, 2009 to November 8th, 2009. Chess was one of the other 30 games represented in Vietnam and were presented with players from 19 countries. The chess program consisted of the following 4 competitions: Team Blitz (Preliminary, Semi-Final, Final), Men Rapid (Preliminary, Semi-Final, Final), Women Rapid (Preliminary, Semi-Final, Final),...
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Hi to all! I'm at the airport, flying in a few moments to Russia, where I will play lots of chess tournaments. First in Moscow, thanks to my being the current Women's World Chess Champion, I have been invited to play in the strongest blitz chess tournament on the planet, the World Blitz Championship , where the strongest players on the planet will be playing, such as Anand, Kramnik, Aronian, Carlsen,...
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Dear friends & chess fans, This photo was taken yesterday, next to a Christmas tree and snow on my head - be the first to guess exactly where I am and send me an email about it, and you might be the winner of an autographed gift! Good luck! Posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Champion www.chessblog.com
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Hi all! Lawrence Cooper, Director of International Chess, English Chess Federation wrote to me : "I have at least one spare place in the London Chess Classic Womens Invitational which takes place from 8th to 15th December at London Olympia Conference Centre in Kensington. It is a ten player, nine round all-play-all and WIM norms will be available. Please apply to Lawrence Cooper lozcooper@hotmail.com...
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Hello everybody! In May 2009 I had a chance to visit the island of Corsica and met the main inspirer of the "chess fever" on the island - Leo Battesti. I also played a rapid match against Sophie Milliet. I had a wonderful time in Corsica you can read about this visit here , you can also go and see my photo memories of this trip here . On October 31st and November 2nd another big chess match...
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Photo by Fred Lucas From October 27 to November 8, 2009 the 19th world senior chess championship took place in Italy. The women's section was won by the legendary chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili who scored 7,5 out of 9 and took clear first place ahead of Elena Fatalibekova (7 points) and Tatiana Fominykh (6,5). Nona Gaprindashvili was the 5th women's world chess champion and was the first woman...
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Hello everybody! After my month away from home, I'm back with 3 new medals in my collection: One Silver team medal in the Eurocup, and two Gold medals from the European Team Championship. After the victorious European team championship in Novi Sad, on October 31 I flew back to Moscow. I arrived in Moscow at 6 pm on October 31 and already in 12 hours later I had my flight to Miami. When I was driving...
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Hi all! I just want to share with you the nice telegram that came from Russian President Medvedev congratulating the Russian women's team (Alexandra Kosteniuk, Nadezhda and Tatiana Kosintseva, Valentina Gunina and Marina Romanko) for our Gold medal at the recent Novi Sad European Team Chess Championship. The original news is on the Kremlin web site and the telegram is here . By itself it does not seem...
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The smiling faces of our team, who won Gold at the European Team Chess Championship, in Novi Sad 2009. From left to right: Valentina Gunina (Board 4), Alexandra Kosteniuk (Board 1), Nadezhda Kosintseva (Board 3), Tatiana Kosintseva (Board 2), Yuri Dokhoian (coach), and Marina Romanko (Board 5). One more photo taken during the prize ceremony (from the Organizer's site ): Women's chess was celebrated...
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Here are the official medals given out to the best players at the European Team Chess Championship 2009, in Novi Sad, women's section: 1 nd Board: Gold: Alexandra Kosteniuk (Russia) Silver: Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) Bronze: Kateryna Lahno (Ukraine) 2 nd Board: Gold: Lela Javakhishvili (Georgia) Silver: Lilit Mktrchian (Armenia) Bronze: Sophie Milliet (France) 3 rd Board: Gold: Nadezhda Kosintseva...
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Dear Chess friends, I am so pleased to let you know that just a few moments ago my team, the team of Russia, won what is probably one of the strongest and most important team competitions of the year, the European Team Championship. It was a race until the last moment with Georgia. We had an individual point advantage before the last round, but it was critical we win our last match against Armenia....
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