Kosteniuk visits Tbilisi before the European Chess Championship starts

That's me today in Tbilisi!

Hello everybody!

Please come and have a look at my 24 photos of the beautiful city of Tbilisi, where the European Women's Chess Championship will start tomorrow.

All my photo and impressions are on my personal blog CHESSQUEEN.COM .

The direct link is here:

http://chessqueen.com/tbilisi-sightseeing-tour-by-kosteniuk.html

The tournament starts tomorrow, all the results will be here. The tournament will be extremely strong, with many top players, such as the Kosintseva sisters, Dzagnidze, the Muzychuk sisters, Lahno, Danielian, Stefanova, Cmilyte, Cramling, and many more. 9 players are rated above 2500 ELO.

Chess Queen™ Alexandra Kosteniuk

12th Women's World Chess Champion

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European Chess Championship R4: Potkin, Savchenko in joint lead with perfect score

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Hello everyone,

The 12th European Individual Chess Championship for Men is being held from March 21 till April 3rd, 2011 in Aix les Bain, France. The thermal city is in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

After four rounds, Vladimir Potkin and Boris Savchenko are the only two players left with a 100% score. Judit Polgar is one of the 19 players on 3.5 points while top seed Peter Svidler has half a point less as he was held to a draw by two IMs.

The Championship is a Swiss system of 11 rounds. The time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves and then 30 minutes to finish the game, plus 30 seconds per move starting with the first move. The games start every day at 15:00 CET (live here) while Tuesday, March 29th is a rest day.

You can access the official website here.

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