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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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The World Champion
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== The World Champion ==
== The World Champion ==
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The defending champion is [[Viswanathan Anand]], who won the [[World Chess Championship 2007]] (a tournament with eight players) and defended the title in the [[World Chess Championship 2008]] (a match against former champion...
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Jihad Watch reports that when 13-year old Israeli Marcel Efroimski won the World Youth Chess Championship in Turkey, the Turks refused to play the Israeli National Anthem, as is customary on such occasions. But Marcel is no dhimmi. She stood defiantly holding her trophy in the air.The Turks claim that no anthems were played. Would they play NO anthems to avoid playing the Israeli one? I would bet
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From israelmatzav.blogspot.com
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Student takes nation's first world chess titleAngus HohenbokenFrom: The AustralianNovember 24, 2009 12:00AMA MELBOURNE student has become Australia's first world champion face-to-face chess player after winning the world under 12 titles in Turkey.Bobby Cheng, 12, beat a field of 142 players from 68 countries to win the title at the World Age Chess Championship in Antalya on Sunday.Cheng's coach, Australian grandmaster Darryl Johansen, said...
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Marcel Efroimski, a 13-year-old Israeli chess prodigy, yesterday became the Girls' Under-14 World Chess Champion when she won the Gold Medal for her age group at the World Youth Chess Championships held in Turkey. This in itself is not of any interest to Jihad Watch -- except that during the awards ceremony, the malignant (if not turban'd) and increasingly Islamic supremacist Turkish authorities refused to play the Israeli National Anthem, as...
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From freerepublic.com
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A New Zealand-trained chess prodigy has been crowned world champion, playing for Australia.Bobby Cheng won the under-12 boys' division of the World Chess Championship, held from November 11 to 23 in Kemer, Turkey.He played...
From syndication.apn.co.nz
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- New world chess champ got start in NZ (syndication.apn.co.nz)
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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From z.about.com
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The young chess player Daysi Cori confirmed that she is the best in her category worldwide after winning the U-16 World Chess Championship , currently taking place in the town of Kemer, Turkey. Daysi beat Georgian Mariam Danelia and added 9.5 points ...
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