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North Urals Cup, Krasnoturinsk, July 2005
This game was played in what will most likely be the strongest women's tournament in the world this year (2005), a category 18 event, with 10 of the strongest women chess players of the world, including the current world champion (Stefanova), the current and past vice-champions of the world (Kovalevskaya, Kosteniuk, and Galliamova), and 5-times world champion Chiburdanidze, as well as several very strong Russian players (the Kosintseva sisters, Nadezhda and Tatiana), with very strong world players such as Koneru (#4 ranked in the world) and Xu (twice winner of World Cup) from China. The 10 players are all within the top 20 ranked in the world as per the last FIDE rating dated July 2005, which is a great achievement of the tournament organizers. The strength of the tournament is visible when you see that the current world champion Stefanova and a past European Champion Zhukova share a tie for the last place. Congratulations to Humpy Koneru for winning the tournament and for being the only unbeaten player in this very difficult field. The tournament results were as follows:
This game was played in the 5th round of the tournament. Although Antoaneta Stefanova is the current reigning world champion, Alexandra had a score of 2.5 out of 3 games played up to then (Alexandra won their games in Dresden 2004 and Calvia 2004, and a draw occurred in Wijk aan Zee 2005.) In all three games Alexandra played with the Black pieces. This game is the first time Alexandra played against Stefanova with the white pieces.
See Chessville's page devoted to GM Kosteniuk, including links to many of her annotated games. Please visit Alexandra Kosteniuk's site by clicking here.
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