Recently Crowned 12th in History
Women's World Chess Champion
Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk
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Golden Blitz Video Clip!
Find out more about Alexandra's sister!
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13.11.2008 
Today Alexandra's team won their first match 4-0 against Azerbaijan. Alexandra won against Zeinab Mamedjarova in only 23 moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5 Be6 9. Be3 Be7 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. c3 Qd7 12. h3 Rad8 13. Bc2 f5 14. exf6 Nxf6 15. a4 Bxh3 16. gxh3 Qxh3 17. Ng5 Qh4 18. Bf5! Bd6 19. Ndf3 Qh5 20. Kg2 h6 21. Rh1 Qe8 22. Ne6 Ne7 23. Nxg7!! Black resigned because of 23...Qc6 24. Be6+ Kxg7 25. Bxh6+ Kg6 26. Qc1 Ne4 27. Bxf8 Kf6 28. Qh6+ Ng6 29. Qg7+ Kxe6 30. Nd4 mate! You can copy and paste the moves in this pgn player.
12.11.2008 
Russia is presenting the strongest teams, in both women and men competitions, at the 2008 Dresden Olympiads. The women's team is composed of World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk, Tatiana Kosintseva, Nadezhda Kosintseva, Ekaterina Korbut and Natalia Pogonina (average ELO 2495). The men's team is composed of Grandmasters Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Svidler, Alexander Grischuk, Alexander Morozevich and Dmitry Jakovenko (average ELO 2756). Follow the event on the organizer's site, watch the games live, and check the results.
04.11.2008 
Alexandra's sister, Oxana, together with the studion in which she works, created this 2-minute introduction video of the new Women's Chess World Champion, we hope you'll like it! Watch it in either Quicktime or in Flash. Both files are approximately 20 MB in size.
Oxana is in her 5th and last year at Moscow State University, she will be awarded next spring a diploma in TV Journalism.
14.10.2008  BREAKING NEWS: GOLD AGAIN AT THE MIND SPORTS GAMES! Alexandra Kosteniuk and her teammates Natalia Pogonina, Valentina Gunina, and Irina Vasilevich won the Women's team Blitz event, beating in the final matches the number 1 seeded China (Hou Yifan (vice-champion of the world), Zhao Xue, Xu Yuhua (ex-world champion), Huang Quian and Ruan Lufei 2.5 to 1.5 and 3 to 1. Alexandra on the first board won both her games against Hou Yifan, congratulations! NEW! Watch all 270 photos from Beijing here!
06.10.2008 
Update: Alexandra won today the vote for the top sports person of the month on the leading Russian Sports Site Sportbox. This is a first for chess since Alexandra was in competition with very popular sports people such as tennis players Svetlana Kuznetsova and Vera Zvonareva, and swimmers Oxana Savchenko and Larisa Ilchenko. Thanks to all of you who voted, your support is really appreciated. The whole final stages of the vote against Olympic Gold medalist Ilchenko was live on national Russian TV and so chess got extreme coverage. For millions of people, chess was really cool today.
05.10.2008 
Alexandra Kosteniuk continues to be in superb form and won a first Gold medal for herself and for her country in the blitz individual competition of the Mind Sports Games in Beijing, China. Top world players participated in this most important blitz event of the year, including vice-champion of the world Hou Yifan. After qualifying yesterday for the semi-finals, Alexandra beat Zhao Xue 2-0
in the semi-finals while Stefanova beat Hou 2-1. In the Finals, Alexandra Kosteniuk beat Antonaeta Stefanova 2-1 to win the Gold medal! Results: Gold: Kosteniuk Silver: Stefanova Bronze: Hou. You can watch all of Alexandra's blitz games by clicking here. Right now and for the next couple of days (schedule) Alexandra is playing the rapid individual competition and you can watch her games live by clicking here. Read an article from China View.
And another one from chess.com.
03.10.2008  Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk is leading her team at the 1st World Sports Mind Games in Beijing, China. Her team-mates are Baira Kovanova, Nataliya Pogonina, and Irina Vasilevich. Alexandra hopes that these Mind Sport Games will help in the movement to put chess in the Olympic Movement. You can follow the event on its official Mind Sports Games Page.
BREAKING NEWS: Alexandra finished second of the Blitz Individual Preliminaries and qualifies to tomorrow's semi-finals, together with Hou Yifan, Antonatea Stefanova and Zhao Xue.
30.09.2008 
The interest from the media has been very strong for the women world chess championship won by Alexandra Kosteniuk, here are some media links: TV (English):
Spotlight TV. (Russian): Vesti 15, Vesti 16, Vesti 17, Vesti 18, Dobroe Utro, NTV. Radio (Russian): Ekho Moscow. Photos: All Players, Tourism 1, 2, 3, Finals, Closing. We are collecting the newspaper and magazine clippings and will post them soon.
26.09.2008 
Since she became the 12th Women World Champion in the history of chess last week, Alexandra Kosteniuk has been interviewed by dozens of TV channels. In particular, you can watch an interview in English on Russia TV either on chessmovies.com in Quicktime or on tubechess.com in Flash. We will continue to post movies to both those sites.
25.09.2008 
Click here to read Jerry Hanken's interview of Alexandra Kosteniuk for Chess Life Online. Dozens of other web articles have come out, for example in the New York Times [If need registration click HERE], and in the Star.
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