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| Wone Jone: <percyblakeney> <she won't play chess professionally for more than another 5-6 years.> After that, perhaps Playboy? |
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Jul-30-08
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| percyblakeney: Kosteniuk is defending her so called, I think, Fischerandom World Championship title in Mainz. She is leading the group stage ahead of Lahno, Cmilyte and Zhukova, and against the latter this position turned up with white to move:
click for larger viewRh8+ and the rest works by itself after Qh3+ and so on. |
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Jul-30-08
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| percyblakeney: More on the event here:
http://www.chesstigers.de/ccm8_inde... |
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Aug-01-08
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| percyblakeney: Kosteniuk defended her FiNet Chess960 Women's Rapid World Championship as it turned out that it was called. She had scored in total 8 points in 10 games after having won the final against Lahno. |
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| Aug-24-08 |
| myschkin: . . .
Alexandra Kosteniuk analyses her Chess Classic Mainz 2008 http://tinyurl.com/4bawrq |
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| Sep-15-08 |
| Phoenix: I understand no one wants to jinx her, but she is currently doing quite well in a tournament called 'Women's World Championship'. |
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| Sep-15-08 |
| xky: She will win and she's got good home crowd support in her own country. |
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Sep-17-08
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| dx9293: Hail the new World Champion! |
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| Sep-17-08 |
| visayanbraindoctor: I posted this originally in the Women's World Championship (2008) page when it was clear the she had at least a draw in the bag, but it also belongs here. "Kosteniuk should win this now. Or she could magnanimously accept a draw offer. One day I hope Hou will win the Women's WC but it's nice to see Kosteniuk, after all these years, finally winning the WC. An advanced congratulations to
Alexandra Kostantinovna Kosteniuk!" |
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| Sep-17-08 |
| Ezzy: Double world champion (Also chess 960) Fantastic year. Many congratulations to her on this amazing achievement!! |
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| Sep-17-08 |
| hitman84: Congratulations to the new Women's World Champion! |
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Sep-17-08
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| ketchuplover: ditto! |
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Sep-17-08
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| Wild Bill: Hail, Queen Alexandra Konstantinovna. |
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Sep-19-08
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| YouRang: She must be the most photogenic world champion there ever was. http://www.chessbase.com/news/2008/..., for example. |
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| Sep-21-08 |
| Kaspablanca: I suggest cg.com upload this Kosteniuk picture for her corner:http://www.chesspics.com/index.php?...
She looks gorgeous. |
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| Sep-22-08 |
| shintaro go: <Kaspablanca> Those pictures are indeed more fitting to place in this page. But she's beautiful in any shot nonetheless. |
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| Sep-22-08 |
| danielpi: <YouRang><She must be the most photogenic world champion there ever was.> Well, there's also the dashing and camera-friendly TP: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped... |
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Sep-25-08
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| percyblakeney: Mig is quite negative in his <Kosteniuk_wins_yawn>-article. He calls the title Women’s World Champion an <embarrassment for our sport> and wants the money to be placed in open events instead: <I'm all for affirmative action to encourage women and other extreme minorities in the chess world to play at every level. I just don't think having them play against each other all the time so they stay weaker is the right way to go about it>. Hou and Koneru will maybe play in a women’s World Championship every second year (while mainly participating in events for both sexes), and that is hardly the same thing as playing in women only events <all the time>, as Mig puts it. Looking through the games of the event I think Kosteniuk played very well, she could have scored an even better result if she hadn’t settled for draws in some games where she didn’t need to win. Maybe it was the best performance ever in her career. Possibly with exception for the plus score in Aeroflot Open 2006, where she drew among others Wang Yue, Bu Xiangzhi, Motylev, Khalifman, Korotylev, and won against Kazhgaleyev and Kempinski. Then her weakest opponent was rated 2596. When Mig writes <I have trouble pretending to care too much about these tournaments and matches between 2500's> it’s worth mentioning that Koneru had a higher rating than for example van Wely and Nepomniachtchi, and Hou Yifan is the by far strongest player in the world born in 1994. It could surely be interesting to follow their games also for Mig. After all he has reported enthusiastically about events where Nakamura has faced opposition rated from the 2100s to the 2400s, as the National Open 2007. So I think Mig at least could respect players like Koneru, Hou, Stefanova, Cramling and Kosteniuk enough not to yawn at their games… http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt... |
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Sep-25-08
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| Red October: well he gave his daily dirt a whole new meaning |
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| Sep-25-08 |
| Bobsterman3000: <percyblakeney> Thanks for those comments on Mig. Let's just say that he's never struck me as a particularly objective commentator. I don't see why women shouldn't have their own WC, either. Golf has an entirely separate series of tournaments for women, and it attracts sponsors fairly well... |
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| Sep-25-08 |
| shintaro go: http://www.kosteniuk.com/en/downloa... The King and Queen of chess |
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| Sep-26-08 |
| Woody Wood Pusher: Fischer may be the best chess champion of all time, but Kosteniuk is by far the best looking! |
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| Sep-26-08 |
| TheTamale: <Woody Wood Pusher: Fischer may be the best chess champion of all time, but Kosteniuk is by far the best looking!> Good God! I just spent 15 minutes perusing the photos on her web site, and I'm seeing crosseyed. Maybe this is an inappropriate comment, but she's not just beautiful, she's smoking hot. Me-youch! |
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Sep-26-08
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| frogbert: <After all he has reported enthusiastically about events where Nakamura has faced opposition rated from the 2100s to the 2400s, as the National Open 2007.> mig's american. nakamura is american. i don't think you need to dig deeper than that. and at least it's called "the national open" in this case, not "world series" or similar clever names used for national leagues over there. :o) |
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Oct-09-08
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| A.G. Argent: If you ask me, it's unfortunate that Ms. Kosteniuk has played only one of the Polgar sisters so far and that was only one game against Zsuzsa which ended in a draw at the '04 women's Olympiad. I realise the Three Sisters ain't playing that much lately and therefore there's little chance of any one of them meeting her in a tournament but surely there would have to be gathering interest in Alexandra playing an exhibition match or some such, versus either of the sisters, what with each of their richly deserved places in chess and Ms. K's status as newly crowned Women's champ and her over-all rising star. I mean, the kid's on a roll. And if Zsuzsa and she are now ranked bang-bang, one and two respectively in the US, why not a little tussle between them? Women's chess could defintely stand the attention or is it perfectly preposterous to even suggest such a thing? But it would be a pretty glamorous pairing though, eh? |
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