The chess games of Anthony Kosten

ANTHONY KOSTEN
(born Jul-24-1958, 67 years old) United Kingdom

In 1982 he placed third in the British Championship, held in Torquay. In 1989 he moved to France and since then has captained and coached that country in major competitions.

Kosten played many tournaments, finishing first or equal first in the following:

1984 Budapest
1985 Andorra International Open
1986 Geneva International Open, clear first at 8.5/9 1987 Cappelle-la-Grande Open (first on tie-break) 1987 Challengers Open, Hastings Congress 1987/88 1989 Challengers Open, Hastings Congress 1989/90 1991 San Benedetto del Tronto
1992 Mandelieu-la-Napoule
1993 14th Festival of Asti
1994 Chanac (repeated in 1995)
1995 Saint-Affrique
2000 Naujac-sur-Mer – L'Étang-Salé
2004 Montpellier – Villeurbanne
2005 Mundolsheim
2006 Cap d'Agde
2007 Clermont-Ferrand - Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
2008 Avoine, Indre-et-Loire - Kilkenny
2010 Wellington College International
Perhaps the most striking of these performances was at the 1st Geneva Open tournament of 1986 (170 players, including several grandmasters, among them Anthony Miles, Miguel Quinteros, and Soviet (Armenian) Smbat Lputian). The event was nine rounds and Kosten won his first eight games. This was sufficient to already guarantee him first place ahead of a strong field. In the final game, he accepted a draw offer from his compatriot Glenn Flear. He agreed after some half an hour's deliberation, for the position was hopelessly lost for Flear. That acceptance prevented Kosten from achieving a perfect 9/9 score. IM Kosten won outright a full point ahead of second placed GM Lars Karlsson.

He lives in Clermont-Ferrand, France, and is now naturalized French and registered on the French Elo list.

Kosten was married to the daughter of Hungarian Grandmaster Győző Forintos.

Team Championships
With the English national team he participated in the European Championship in 1989 in Haifa, where he received the individual bronze medal for his score of 5 points from 7 games on the first reserve board. In 1990 he played for England in the 1st VISA Chess Summit in Rekyavik. England came second.

In the British Team Championships 4NCL, he won with Slough in 1996, 1999 and 2000 and with Guildford in 2004, 2007 and 2008. He twice won the French Team Championships with Monaco, in 2001 and 2002. In Germany he has played on the first board of Schott Mainz since 1994. In Austria, he played for Frohnleiten from 2001, which became Holz Dohr-Semriach from the 2004/05 season. In the 2007/08 season he was the best player with Rainer Buhmann. In Switzerland, he played for Lausanne Le Joueur, and he was also active in the Hungarian (for MTK) and Basque (for Oaso X.T.) Team Championships.

Wikipedia article: Anthony Kosten

Last updated: 2025-07-17 10:01:47

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Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. A Kosten vs F Sanz Alonso	1-0	25	1978	Hastings Challengers 1978/79	C29 Vienna Gambit
2. A Kosten vs B Cafferty	0-1	33	1979	Hastings Challengers 1979/80	B04 Alekhine's Defense, Modern
3. A Kosten vs B Kurajica	1-0	38	1980	Evening Standard Chess Congress	B81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack
4. A Kosten vs C Morris	1-0	24	1981	Bristol op	B42 Sicilian, Kan
5. A Kosten vs Miles	0-1	63	1981	Bristol op	B42 Sicilian, Kan
6. N Bradbury vs A Kosten	0-1	32	1981	ARC Young Masters	A61 Benoni
7. A Kosten vs G West	½-½	31	1981	ARC Young Masters	C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
8. S Taulbut vs A Kosten	1-0	49	1981	ARC Young Masters	B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
9. D P Mooney vs A Kosten	1-0	31	1981	ARC Young Masters	B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
10. A Kosten vs J Cox	0-1	68	1981	ARC Young Masters	C00 French Defense
11. A Kosten vs N Carr	1-0	43	1981	ARC Young Masters	B15 Caro-Kann
12. A Kosten vs Chandler	½-½	22	1981	5th Lloyds Bank Masters Open	B16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation
13. H van Parreren vs A Kosten	0-1	40	1981	5th Lloyds Bank Masters Open	B08 Pirc, Classical
14. J Levitt vs A Kosten	0-1	38	1981	5th Lloyds Bank Masters Open	A64 Benoni, Fianchetto, 11...Re8
15. A Kosten vs G Ligterink	½-½	49	1981	5th Lloyds Bank Masters Open	B44 Sicilian
16. A Kosten vs G Iskov	1-0	35	1981	5th Lloyds Bank Masters Open	B40 Sicilian
17. P Gerbert vs A Kosten	1-0	43	1981	5th Lloyds Bank Masters Open	B06 Robatsch
18. A Kosten vs J Arnason	0-1	43	1981	Manchester Benedictine Open	B40 Sicilian
19. A Kosten vs M Basman	0-1	35	1981	Manchester Benedictine Open	B00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening
20. A Kosten vs K Pytel	0-1	34	1981	Lewisham International	B32 Sicilian
21. D King vs A Kosten	½-½	36	1981	Lewisham International	C43 Petrov, Modern Attack
22. N R Oliver vs A Kosten	0-1	29	1981	Lewisham International	C44 King's Pawn Game
23. A Kosten vs E Schiller	1-0	41	1981	Lewisham International	B18 Caro-Kann, Classical
24. K Berg vs A Kosten	0-1	13	1981	Lewisham International	C29 Vienna Gambit
25. A Kosten vs A Kuligowski	0-1	29	1981	Lewisham International	B96 Sicilian, Najdorf


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