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I beat the World Champion!!

This may be the biggest news for Women's & Girl's Chess of this end of the year, at least it can rejoice all supporters of women's chess and visitors to my blog, dedicated exclusively to ladies playing chess. November 17 was a great day for me at the World Blitz Championship in Moscow, I scored an incredible 7/14 (performance 2725 ELO) and managed to beat many super Grandmasters, such as Morozevich, Grischuk, and Aronian, as well as the #1 rated woman in the world Judith Polgar. But my biggest achievement that day was when I beat the (Overall - Men's) World Chess Champion Vishy Anand. It's extremely rare when a reigning Women's World Chess Champion beats a reigning (Men's) World Champion, I think the last (and probably unique) time was when Zhu Chen beat Ponomariov in 2002.

So I dedicate this victory to all of you, supporters of women's and girl's chess! With it, I send out also a special message to all girls and women chess players, don't be afraid of being out-numbered by men and boys, you can do it, you can play well and beat anybody! Chess is the fairest of games, the more you love it, the more you study and practice chess, the more chess will give back to you!

Long live Women's & Girl's Chess!

Alexandra Kosteniuk
Women's World Chess Champion
Chess Blog for Girls & Women: www.chessblog.com

P.S. Here is the PGN file for this game:

[Event "World Blitz Championship 2009"]

[White "Anand, Viswanathan"]

[Black "Kosteniuk, Alexandra"]

[Result "0-1"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. e4 Bb4 6. Bg5 c5 7. e5 cxd4 8. Qa4+ Nc6 9. O-O-O Bd7 10. Ne4 Be7 11. exf6 gxf6 12. Bh4 e5 13. Bxc4 a6 14. Qb3 Na5 15. Bxf7+ Kf8 16. Qd3 Bb5 17. Qd2 Kxf7 18. Qh6 Qc8+ 19. Kb1 Qf5 20. Rhe1 Bc6 21. Ka1 Bxe4 22. Nxd4 exd4 23. Rxd4 Rad8 24. Ra4 Nc6 25. g4 Qxg4 26. f3 Qg6 27. Qf4 Bc2 28. Rc4 Bd3 29. Rcc1 Rhe8 30. Qc7 Ne5 31. Qxb7 Rd7 32. Qb3+ Kf8 33. Bg3 Qf7 34. Qa4 Bb5 35. Qe4 Nd3 36. Rg1 Bc5 37. Qh4 Bxg1 38. Rxg1 Ne5 39. Bf4 Ng6 40. Bh6+ Kg8 41. Qb4 Red8 0-1

Exhausted after World Blitz Chess Championship

Hello Everybody!

I'm sorry for not updating my blog for a few days. Now I'm back since the World Blitz Chess Championship that took place on November 16-18, 2009 in Moscow has come to its end.

Magnus Carlsen won this event with a fantastic result - 31 out of 42! That's 3 points ahead of Viswanathan Anand who took the silver medal of the championship!

In the last 4 days I played 59 blitz-games! Since just before the world blitz championship, on November 15, I took part in another strong GM's tournament in Moscow. So I had a very long blitz marathon.

I did have some spectacular wins over very strong GM, for example two days ago I beat the world #1 rated Magnus Carlsen (who later went on to win the tournament). I am especially happy about yesterday's (17th of November) where out of 14 blitz games in the super strong world blitz championship I took 7 out of 14, beating Grandmasters Anand (who is the current Men's World Champion, Aronian, Judith Polgar, Tkachiev, Grischuk and Morozevich! In total I scored a respectable 12.5 points, which corresponds to 10 wins and 5 draws, against players on average 200 ELO points above me. It was a great experience, and I am so happy to have been able to play and beat such world renowned players. I will soon prepare for you some of my best games with comments and some in video.

Already tomorrow I will be flying to Khanty-Mansiisk where I will take place in the World Cup and will face in the first round GM Shakhriar Mamedyarov. But I can promise you that as soon as I have time I will tell you in details about the World Blitz Championship as well as about many interesting events that took place while I was away from blogging.

Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk

Women's World Chess Champion

www.chessblog.com

2010 World Anand-Topalov match goes to Sofia

Hello everybody!

Blitz report from the 80th FIDE Congress, right now in Halkidiki:

During the first part of today's FIDE executive board (I'm sitting on its Presidential Board) a very important decision took place. By the decision of the Congress, the world championship match 2010 between Anand and Topalov will be held in Sofia, in April 2010.

Silvio Danailov presenting the bid for the World Championship Match 2010

Silvio Danailov presented a guarantee letter from the prime minister of Bulgaria. There were two other bids for this match, from Turkey and Singapore, but they proposed a lower prize fund.

Congratulations to the city of Sofia, and I look forward to seeing the great games of this match!

Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk

Women's World Chess Champion

www.chessblog.com