Prize Ceremony European Team Chess Championship
The smiling faces of our team, who won Gold at the European Team Chess Championship, in Novi Sad 2009. From left to right: Valentina Gunina (Board 4), Alexandra Kosteniuk (Board 1), Nadezhda Kosintseva (Board 3), Tatiana Kosintseva (Board 2), Yuri Dokhoian (coach), and Marina Romanko (Board 5).
Women's chess was celebrated these last 10 days. Thanks to all fans and friends who have cheered for us during the whole championship. We dedicate this victory to you all. You can see from our smiles that all our efforts were not in vain. It is a sweet victory, and one which benefits us all, and the game of chess in particular.
I will go back home in a few hours, and I am already preparing for you full video reports of most of my games. They were all of a very high level and contained many interesting moments, nice sacrifices, deep strategical moves, and of course some mistakes on both sides. I look forward to sharing some of those experiences with you.
After a short training stay at home, in less than 2 weeks I will fly to the Moscow World Blitz Championship, to which I have been invited and which will be the strongest blitz tournament I will ever have participated in, I'm looking forward to it!
Women's World Chess Champion
Labels: European Team Championship, Kosteniuk, Novi Sad
posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk @ 10:59 PM
3 Comments:
At October 31, 2009 at 1:31 PM ,
PetrS said...
Congratulations, Alexandra!
BTW: Do you have any idea why your Twitter account is suspended at the moment? :(
At October 31, 2009 at 1:58 PM ,
Alexandra Kosteniuk said...
Thanks!
I don't know about Twitter, must be a mistake. I wrote to them, let's see what they answer.
At November 1, 2009 at 5:09 AM ,
Antonio Carlos said...
Congratulations! We are missing you on Twitter!
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