http://kosteniuk.com Chess Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk Official Site http://kosteniuk.com/index.php?lg=eng 15.05.2011 Dear visitors! I am in the process of moving all my information to my new chess blog www.chessqueen.com. I've already completed the News (since 2001!), About Me, Photos (12,000 photos!), Articles (200 articles), and Movies sections (100+), and preparing many new sections for you! I hope you will like it!

]]> http://kosteniuk.com/index.php?lg=eng 24.04.2011 Chess Queen™ Alexandra Kosteniuk is 2011 Russian Chess Blitz Champion! Alexandra scored 11/14 in the final (performance of 2652 ELO), ahead of Gunina (10.5), then Bodnaruk & Zaiats (9), Ambartsumova (8.5), Turova & Kovanova & Tomilova (8), Galliamova & Romanko & Fominikh & Sukhareva (7.5), Kashlinskaya & Vasilevich & Novikova (7), Pogonina & Kabanova (6.5), Girya (6), etc. 24 players. See the Final Results Table here. Also read Alexandra's Chessblog post.

If you'd like to see Alexandra in action make sure to visit her YouTube channel. It won't be a surprise to you she has beaten the strongest men on the planet Anand, Carlsen, Aronian, as well as top woman Judit Polgar.

]]> http://kosteniuk.com/index.php?lg=eng 23.04.2011 We congratulate Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk for leading her team to victory in the 2011 Russian Team Championships, played in Olginka, Russia. Her team was comprised of (from left to right in the photo) Alina Kashlinskaya (Board 5, 4/5), Valentina Gunina (Board 2, 4/6), Alexandra Kosteniuk (Board 1, 6/7), Olga Girya (Board 4, 2/4), and Marina Romanko (Board 3, 2/6). In second position was the team led by Zhukova and Munguntuul, and in 3rd the team led by Stefanova and Lahno. The championship was very strong this year. See full results here and blog post here. Watch all my games here.

]]> http://kosteniuk.com/index.php?lg=eng 23.04.2011 By beating ex-world champion Antoaneta Stefanova in the last round of the Russian Club Chess Championships, Alexandra scored 6/7 and a performance of 2746 ELO. This is equivalent to approximately +20 ELO points for the next rating list. See the individual table here, and Alexandra's individual results here (which includes wins against superstars Galliamova, Zhukova, and Stefanova).

]]> http://kosteniuk.com/index.php?lg=eng 06.02.2011 We're pleased to report that Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk started the year 2011 with a nice success, winning the prestigious Moscow Open 2011, with 7 out of 9 points, ahead of Batkhuyag Munguntuul from Mongolia (also 7 points but with a lower tie-break). Third is Chinese GM Zhao Xue, 4th was Russian Valentina Gunina. Read Alexandra's post on www.chessblog.com and watch all her 9 games on www.chessqueen.com.

]]> http://kosteniuk.com/index.php?lg=eng 04.02.2011 Watch the games of Chess Queen™ Alexandra Kosteniuk at the 2011 Moscow Open Women's Invitational Chess Tournament. Played from January 29 to 6 of February 2011. More regular news about Alexandra can be found on her Twitter "@chessqueen" account (English) or "@kosteniuk" (Russian), her Facebook "chessqueen" Fan Page, and of course the blog www.chessblog.com and her personal page www.chessqueen.com.

]]> http://kosteniuk.com/index.php?lg=eng 14.12.2010 12th Women's World Chess Champion and Chess Queen™ Alexandra Kosteniuk has decided to repeat last year’s successful chess promotion and offer a free chess simul to a deserving chess club or school in the USA. Read Alexandra's post about it and her thoughts about the closing 2010 chess year, and how she's getting ready for 2011. Link to the original post here.

]]> http://kosteniuk.com/index.php?lg=eng 02.10.2010 At the Chess Olympiads of Khanty-Mansiysk, Alexandra's team Russia-1 (comprised of Tatiana Kosintseva, Nadezhda Kosintseva, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Alisa Galliamova, and Valentina Gunina), is guaranteed to win Gold. The team got 10 match win in 10 rounds, not even one match drawn or lost. That’s 20 match points, with the closest follower China with only 16 match points, and then 4 teams with 15 match points (Ukraine, Georgia, Russia-2 and Poland). See the rankings after 10 rounds. Read Alexandra's post about it on chessblog.com. Tomorrow is the last round then we will have lots of photos and even video from the prize ceremony.

]]> http://kosteniuk.com/index.php?lg=eng 05.09.2010 Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk passed the milestone of 100,000 followers on Twitter. Twitter has now become a major social network with millions of members, and lots of chess players. You can visit her Twitter page at http://twitter.com/chessqueen and sign up to follow her updates (it’s free to join Twitter). There are some Chess GM’s on Twitter, a good list can be found on twitterchess.com. Check out also Alexandra's Facebook page & YouTube channel. Read more here.

]]> http://kosteniuk.com/index.php?lg=eng 06.08.2010 Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk is in Mainz, Germany, to participate in the famous "Chess Classic". She was a participant at the Press Conference, together with Vishy Anand, world chess champion, classical chess and Levon Aronian, rapid world chess champion. Read more here.

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