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The 10th European Women's Individual Championship was a 168-player 11-round Swiss tournament held at Hotel Olgino in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 8-20 March 2009, with a rest day on 15 March (after Round 7) and the day for playoffs on 20 March. It was organized by the Russian Chess Federation, European Chess Union, the St. Petersburg Chess Federation and the City of St. Petersburg. The first 14 players would qualify for the 2010 World Championship tournament. Time control: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, fo ... [more]
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Player: Elena Zaiatz
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| Mar-23-09 | | rangek: First?? |
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| Mar-24-09 | | brucejavier: 2ndddddd |
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| Mar-24-09 | | Kopenhagener: You are both right - the angel from Archangelsk was first in the European Championship for the second time ! |
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| Mar-24-09 | | percyblakeney: <first in the European Championship for the second time !> And the first time was impressive enough with nine wins, the standard draw against her sister, and one 126-move draw: European Individual Championships (Women) (2007)/Tatiana Kosintseva |
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| Mar-24-09 | | DCP23: <the angel from Archangelsk> Haven't heard that epithet before. Nice. |
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| Mar-24-09 | | WhiteRook48: Sixth! |
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| Mar-24-09 | | Jim Bartle: "Haven't heard that epithet before. Nice."
I recoiled a bit to see the word "epithet" applied, thinking it meant a negative description of something, or a swear word or phrase. But then I looked it up, and DCP used the word correctly, that it's meaning can be neutral. Funny how the use of words drifts away from the proper definition. |
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Mar-24-09
 | | keypusher: Other renowned epithets:
Swift-Footed Achilles
Wily Odysseus
Agamemnon Lord of Men
Ethelred the Unready
Pedro the Cruel
Theophylact the Unbearable
Viktor the Terrible
Helicopter Ben Bernanke |
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Mar-24-09
 | | tpstar: Joseph The Black Death Blackburne
Jose The Machine Capablanca
Carl The Drawing Master Schlechter
Richard The Fifth Teichmann
Frank The Swindler Marshall
Mikhail The Avenger Botvinnik
David The Sorcerer Bronstein
Viktor The Terrible Korchnoi
Mikhail The Magician From Riga Tal
Iron Tigran Petrosian
Garry The Beast From Baku Kasparov
Viswanathan The Tiger From Madras Anand
Alexey Fire On Board Shirov
Gata Kamster Kamsky
Michael Spider Adams
Susan Sugar Polgar
Levon The Norse Against Caucasia Theory Aronian |
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Mar-24-09
 | | Open Defence: Sylvio There's Something Going on in that Toilet Danailov |
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Mar-24-09
| | keypusher: Twenty-six for oh Colonel Moreau |
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Mar-24-09
| | keypusher: "Champion of Two Generations" Emanuel Lasker.
I dunno, seems to lack a certain something. |
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| Mar-27-09 | | percyblakeney: Russiachess.org had excellent coverage of the event, with very detailed analysis of the games, and not only of the photos as was the case with Chessbase :-) Final report:
http://russiachess.org/content/view...
Some of the earlier reports:
http://russiachess.org/content/view...
http://russiachess.org/content/view...
http://russiachess.org/content/view...
http://russiachess.org/content/view...
http://russiachess.org/content/view...
http://russiachess.org/content/view...
Photos from the award ceremony:
http://russiachess.org/images/stori... http://russiachess.org/images/stori... |
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| Mar-27-09 | | slomarko: <percyblakeney: Russiachess.org had excellent coverage of the event, with very detailed analysis of the games, and not only of the photos as was the case with Chessbase :-)> indeed. meanwhile chessgames had to coverage whatsoever and we only got this page after the championship was over. |
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| May-04-09 | | YoungEd: Looks like a rather high percentage of decisive games in this tournament! Nice to see! |
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