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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Alexandra: "Telegram from President Medvedev"

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From: chessvine.com

Source: Alexandra's Blog 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 to be such a big deal, but in fact I think it's great that somebody as important as a country president values the results of their chess team. If all the countries did ... Read Full Story

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A Word From Alexandra Kosteniuk (@chessqueen)

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The following was posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk on her official blog (somewhat abridged by me ... check the link for the full article): PLEASE HELP ME IMPROVE WOMEN'S CHESS IN THE WORLD! Hello all! The FIDE 80th Annual Congress will be held in the period from October 11th to 18th in Kallithea, Halkidiki, Greece. I am a member of the FIDE Presidential Board and so I have been invited to participate. During this Congress many important meetings will take place. The chairmen and the members of each commission will meet and discuss the ways to work and to cooperate in the future. One of ... Read Full Story

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Susan, Blogshares, & An Incomplete List Of Chess Blogs ...

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I've recently been exchanging e-mails with a fellow blogger who had come across an article by Susan Polgar . Now, I know for a fact that Susan is very aware of this blog (no small thanks to my incessant self-promoting attitude, lol). So I can only conclude that it was Susan's intent to make some bloggers aware that they were not being listed by blogshares. I did know about blogshares ... I'm not on the list of chess blogs and I did plan to apply to be included. In fact I plan on being in the top 5 on that list ... I don't ... Read Full Story

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Chess Journalist Of America Awards & My Convo With Alexandra Kosteniuk

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I thought I should take this opportunity to relate this odd coincidence to my readers: I just recently contacted Alexandra Kosteniuk regarding a side project I'm trying to start up and wouldn't you know that she mentioned to me that I should start that project by becoming a member of the Chess Journalists of America. Well, to be honest I've danced around CJA membership for a full year now and it's time to buckle down and seek membership. I've never considered what I do here as "journalism" because I tend to throw my opinion and commentary at just about everything. If that's journalism ... Read Full Story

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Alexandra Kosteniuk: Smartest Babe Alive

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From: www.manolith.com

The Miami Herald is reporting that the world’s female Chess champion is also an aspiring model. She is this Russian woman called Alexandra Kosteniuk who lives in South Beach, Florida (of all places). She sells calenders of her in a bikini on her website, too. Can’t you just be really good at one thing and keep it at that? An aspiring model who uses her good looks to promote chess, Kosteniuk has been compared to Russian tennis knockout (and Miami Beach resident) Anna Kournikova. (Kosteniuk debunks the comparison by noting that she has won individual tournaments, a feat the other Russian cannot claim.) But ... Read Full Story

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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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Should Women's Chess Titles Stay or Go?

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 Championship

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: Chess Prodigy Nihal for World Youth Chess Championship in...

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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World Chess Championship Set: Anand v. Topalov in April '10

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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Soumya Swaminathan wins World Junior Chess Championship

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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Chess book of the year: the winner

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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