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GM Alexandra Kosteniuk
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GM Alexandra Kosteniuk Wins the
2005 Golden Blitz Tournament in Moscow.
Alexandra Kosteniuk won convincingly the Golden
Blitz tournament in Moscow, by defeating in the semi-finals ex-world
champion Zhu Chen 2-0 and in the finals Almira Skripchenko 2-0.
For more about this event -
click here. |
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For more pictures from Goteborg, including many of both the men's &
women's teams,
click
here.
All Goteborg photos are by Pufichek and ©
www.kosteniuk.com. |
Congratulations to GM Kosteniuk (first
board) and the entire Russian Woman's team for their Bronze Medal finish
in the European Team Championships, Goteborg 2005.
For more pictures from the Prize Ceremony,
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GM Alexandra Kosteniuk recently became the
2005 Russian Woman's Champion
with an incredible result or 9/11, which is a performance of 2643 ELO!
With this tournament, Alexandra's rating increased to a personal all-time
(so-far!) best of 2516, making her the 5th highest rated woman in
the world. You can
read the ChessBase report by
clicking here. |
Alexandra was officially awarded the
GM (men's) title at
the 2004 FIDE Congress.
She is the 10th woman in history to
get that title,
and the first Russian.
Read more here.
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The World Champions Chessdarts
Alexandra Kosteniuk and Andy Fordham |
Chess Grandmaster
Alexandra Kosteniuk
and Darts Champion Andy Fordham
won the
First World Championship Chessdarts 2005.
The venue of the World Championship was the magnificent Krasnopolsky Hotel, in exactly the same room where Max Euwe beat Alexander
Alekhine in 1935. Read more about this novel event
here. |
Annotations by
Kosteniuk
Kosintseva,Tatiana (2486) - Kosteniuk,Alexandra (2492) [B51]
Russian Championship Superfinal Samara (Russia) (9), 24.05.2005
Kosintseva,Nadezhda (2459) - Kosteniuk,Alexandra (2492) [B86]
Russian Championship Superfinal Samara (Russia) (2), 16.05.2005
Kosteniuk,Alexandra (2492) - Gunina,Valentina (2340) [B12]
Russian Championship Superfinal Samara (Russia) (10), 25.05.2005
Kosteniuk,Alexandra (2492) - Korbut,Ekaterina (2399) [D00]
Russian
Championship Superfinal Samara (Russia) (1),
15.05.2005
GM Stefanova, Antoaneta (2523) - GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra (2508) [B63]
36th Chess Olympiad Calvia (Spain) (round 7), 22.10.2004
Matveeva,Svetlana (2423) - Kosteniuk,Alexandra (2492) [D17]
Russian Championship Superfinal Samara (Russia) (6), 20.05.2005
Kosteniuk,Alexandra (2492) - Pogonina,Natalia (2355) [B76]
Russian Championship Superfinal Samara (Russia) (5), 19.05.2005
Kochetkova,Julia (2311) - Kosteniuk,Alexandra (2492) [C42]
Russian Championship Superfinal Samara (Russia) (11), 26.05.2005
Kosteniuk,A (2516) - Stefanova,A (2499)
North Urals Cup Krasnoturinsk (Russia) (5), 08.07.2005
Maric,A -
Kosteniuk,A [D45]
European Team Championship, Goteburg (Sweden), 31.07.2005
Kosteniuk,A -
Dembo,Y [B65]
European team championship Gothenburg (Sweden) (3), 01.08.2005
Enjoy some of the many photos below of
Alexandra Kosteniuk, grandmaster and supermodel.
See (and buy!) the photos below (and other pictures too) from
Alexandra's beach shoot with famed photographer
Pierre-W. Henry, personally autographed by her, on
this special page.
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See (and buy!) the
photos above (and other pictures too) from
Alexandra's beach shoot with famed photographer
Pierre-W. Henry, personally autographed by her, on
this special page. |
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