Alexandra Kosteniuk
Alexandra Kosteniuk is one of the best female chess players in the world. Alexandra Kosteniuk won the Women's World Chess Championship in 2008.
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World Youth Chess Championship R2information, results, and photo galleryThe World Youth Chess Championship 2009 (under 8, under 10, under 12, under 14, under 16 and under 18 years old - open and girls) will take place in Kemer Antalya, Turkey, between November the 11th, 2009 and November the 23th, 2009.With all the accompanying persons, VIPs, staff of TCF, journalists, coaches etc. more than 2600 people have arrived for this tournament.Here...
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From susanpolgar.blogspot.com
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A recent Wall Street Journal editorial in favor of abolishing women's titles in chess has generated a lot of discussion online. For a while now, this -- and similar issues, such as the necessity of female-only events in chess -- have simmered, becoming hot topics now and again whenever an article like this WSJ editorial pops up.
Reaction, not surprisingly, has been mixed. Some, like Russian GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, are strongly against taking...
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World youth chess championship 2009WYCC 2009 Turkey, participants, photos and informationThe numbers announced a few weeks ago on Chessdom.com are valid - the World Youth Chess Chapionship will have 1500 players from 89 different countries. With all the accompanying persons, VIPs, staff of TCF, journalists, coaches etc. more than 2600 people are expected to arrive for this tournament. The competition will take place in Kemer, Antalya between...
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Mangalore, Nov 10: DCS prodigy Nihal Manjunath has been selected by the All India Chess Federation to represent India in the “World Youth Chess Championship 2009 being organized by Turkish Chess Federation under the auspices of the FIDE at Antalya ...
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In Sunday's Chess column in the Los Angeles Times International master Jack Peters revealed the dates and location of next year's World Chess Championship match between defending champ Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov.The World Chess Federation (FIDE) announced that the 12-game world championship match between champion Viswanathan Anand of India and challenger Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria would take place in Sofia, Bulgaria. Tentative...
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Puerto Madryn, Argentina: Pune based Indian girl Soumya Swaminathan achieved what only five other Indians have achieved in world chess - she has won the World Junior girls chess championship at Puerto Madryn in Argentina on November 3, 2009.
The 20-year-old woman...read more
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Our book of the year is an unusual, personal, inspirational and endearing work that deserves a place on every chess player's bookshelfSpassky-Bronstein, Amsterdam 1956. Black to move.Books from Botvinnik, Bronstein and Lipnitsky, along with Kasparov's latest addition to his series on world championship chess, gave our shortlist for the fourth Guardian chess book of the year award a distinct Soviet-era flavour. (By the way, an apology here to...
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