Ladies Shine in the Dragon
Hello everybody!
Right now I'm working on my new opening DVD series. And the first DVD in that series will be about How to play the Dragon variation of the Sicilian Defense.
During my work I found one magnificent game played by a WGM. I'm sure you will enjoy the attack by WGM Beata Kadziolka who won in brilliant style against GM Bakre Tejas: Below you will find this game with the comments by Beata, as well as the pgn a little below that. You can find the full comments in the 91st chess informator.
[Event "Pardubice"] [Date "2004"] [White "Bakre T"] [Black "Kadziolka B"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "B78"] [Annotator "Kadziolka,B"] [Source "91/191"]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 O-O 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.O-O-O Rc8 11.Bb3 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 b5 13.Bxa7
(13.Nd5 Nxd5 14.Bxg7 Kxg7 15.exd5 a5 16.a3 b4 17.axb4 axb4 18.Qxb4 Kg8 19.Rhe1 Rb8 20.Qc3 Qb6 (20...Re8 {90/(188)}))
13. ... b4 14.Nd5 Nxd5 15.exd5 Qa5 16.Bd4 Rxc2+!! (Novelty, see the diagram)17.Bxc2
( 17.Kxc2? Bf5+ -+) ( 17.Qxc2!?)
Qxa2 18.Qf2?!
(18.Qxb4? Bh6+ 19.Rd2 Qa1+ 20.Bb1 Bf5 -+) (18.Bxg7? Qa1+ 19.Bb1 Rc8+ 20.Bc3 Bf5 -+) (18.b3? Rc8 19.Bxg7 ( 19.Qf2 Bxd4 20.Rxd4 Qa1+ 21.Kd2 Rxc2+!!-+) Bf5 20.Bb2 Qxb3 -+) (18.Qe3 Rc8 19.Kd2 Rxc2+!! 20.Kxc2 Qc4+ 21.Kd2 Bxd4 22.Qxe7 ( 22.Qd3 Qxd5 23.g4 Bb5 -+) Bb5 with compensation)
18. ... Rc8 19.Kd2 Rxc2+!! 20.Kxc2 Qc4+ 21.Kd2
(21.Bc3 Bf5+ -+)
21. ... Bxd4 22.Qe2 Bc3+!! 23.Ke3 Qc5+ 24.Ke4 Bf5+ 25.Kf4 Be5+ 26.Kg5 f6+ 27.Kh4 g5+ 0-1
( 27...g5+ 28.Kh5 Bg6+ 29.Kh6 ( 29.Kg4 Qc8#) Qc8 with the idea of Qf8#)
[Event "Pardubice 91/191"] [Site ""] [Date "2004"] [Round ""] [White "Bakre T"] [Black "Kadziolka B"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "B78"] [Annotator "Kadziolka,B"] [Source ""]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 O-O 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.O-O-O Rc8 11.Bb3 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 b5 13.Bxa7 b4 14.Nd5 Nxd5 15.exd5 Qa5 16.Bd4 Rxc2+ 17.Bxc2 Qxa2 18.Qf2 Rc8 19.Kd2 Rxc2+ 20.Kxc2 Qc4+ 21.Kd2 Bxd4 22.Qe2 Bc3+ 23.Ke3 Qc5+ 24.Ke4 Bf5+ 25.Kf4 Be5+ 26.Kg5 f6+ 27.Kh4 g5+ 0-1
Chess News
From February 22-25, 2010, in South Carolina, USA a very interesting Sicilian theme match (Dragon, Scheveningen, Najdorf or Sveshnikov) is played between Judit Polgar and Gregory Kaidanov. You can find the photos of the match here. After 3 games Kaidanov is in the lead with 2 to 1. But in the second game Judit won a nice game in the Dragon. Here it is: [Event "Sicilian Theme Match"] [Site "Hilton Head USA"] [Date "2010.2.23"] [Round "2"] [White "Polgar,Ju"] [Black "Kaidanov,G"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B78"]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 Nc6 8.Qd2 O-O 9.Bc4 Bd7 10.O-O-O Rc8 11.Bb3 Ne5 12.Kb1 Re8 13.h4 h5 14.g4 hxg4 15.h5 Nxh5 16.Rdg1 e6 17.Bh6 Qf6 18.fxg4 Bxh6 19.Qxh6 Qg7 20.Qd2 Nf6 21.g5 Nh5 22.Nce2 Nc4 23.Bxc4 Rxc4 24.b3 Rc5 25.Ng3 Nxg3 26.Rxg3 Rec8 27.Rgh3 e5 28.Rh4 exd4 29.Qh2 Kf8 30.Qxd6+ Kg8 31.Qxd7 d3 32.c4 Qc3 33.R4h2 b5 34.e5 Qxe5 35.Rh7 R5c7 36.Qd6 1-0
It's always nice to see such nice games in the Dragon, I hope you enjoy them as well!
Posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Champion
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Labels: Dragon, Kadziolka, Polgar
Kosteniuk - Judith Polgar Blitz Game
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Here's one more sample from my Chess Blitz Fever DVD, which contains over 2 hours of fascinating and instructive chess games and lots of tips to play better blitz chess.
Posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Champion Labels: Blitz, Kosteniuk, Polgar
Women's World Chess Champions
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Since my blog is about women's chess I would like to start by introducing you to the whole list of women's world chess champions and the history of the women's world chess championships. This information is taken from Wikipedia.The Women's World Chess Championship is played to determine the women's world champion in chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE.
Unlike most sports, women are able to compete against men in chess, and so some women do not compete for the women's title.
The regulations of the women’s world chess championship can be found on the FIDE web-site.
The Women's World Championship was established by FIDE in 1927 as a single tournament held alongside the Chess Olympiad. The winner of that tournament, Vera Menchik, did not have any special rights as the men's champion did — instead she had to defend her title by playing as many games as all the challengers. She did this successfully in every other championship in her lifetime (1930, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1937 and 1939). Menchik died, still champion, in 1944 in a German air raid on Kent.
The next championship was another round-robin tournament in 1949-50 and was won by Lyudmila Rudenko. Thereafter a system similar to that of the men's championship was established, with a cycle of Candidates events (and later Interzonals) to pick a challenger to face the reigning champion.
The first Candidates tournament was held in Moscow, 1952. Elisabeth Bykova won and proceeded to defeat Rudenko with seven wins, five losses, and two draws to become the third champion. The next Candidates tournament was won by Olga Rubtsova. Instead of directly playing Bykova, however, FIDE decided that the championship should be held between the three top players in the world. Rubtsova won at Moscow in 1956, one-half point ahead of Bykova, who finished five points ahead of Rudenko. Bykova regained the title in 1958 and defended it against Kira Zvorykina, winner of a Candidates tournament, in 1959.
The fourth Candidates tournament was held in 1961 in Vrnjacka Banja, and was utterly dominated by Nona Gaprindashvili of Georgia, who won with ten wins, zero losses, and six draws. She then decisively defeated Bykova with seven wins, no losses, and four draws in Moscow, 1962 to become champion. Gaprindashvili defended her title against Alla Kushnir of Russia at Riga 1965 and Tbilisi/Moscow 1969. In 1972, FIDE introduced the same system for the women's championship as with the men's: a series of Interzonal tournaments, followed by the Candidates matches. Kushnir won again, only to be defeated by Gaprindashvili at Riga 1972. Gaprindashvili defended the title one last time against Nana Alexandria of Georgia at Pitsunda/Tbilisi 1975.
In 1976-1978 Candidates cycle, 17-year-old Maya Chiburdanidze of Georgia ended up the surprise star, defeating Nana Alexandria, Elena Akhmilovskaya, and Alla Kushnir to face Gaprindashvili in the 1978 finals at Tbilisi. Chiburdanidze proceeded to soundly defeat Gaprindashvili, marking the end of one Georgian's domination and the beginning of another's. Chiburdanidze defended her title against Alexandria at Borjomi/Tbilisi 1981 and Irina Levitina at Volgograd 1984. Following this, FIDE reintroduced the Candidates tournament system. Akhmilovskaya, who had earlier lost to Chiburdanidze in the Candidates matches, won the tournament was but was still defeated by Chiburdanidze at Sofia 1986. Chiburdanidze's final title defense came against Nana Ioseliani at Telavi 1988.
Chiburdanidze's domination ended at Manila 1991, where the young Chinese star Xie Jun defeated her, after finishing second to the still-active Gaprindashvili in an Interzonal, tying with Alisa Maric in the Candidates tournament, and then beating Maric in a tie-breaker match.
Susan (also known as Zsuzsa) Polgar won the 1992 Candidates tournament at Shanghai. The Candidates final - an 8 game match between the top two finishers in the tournament - was a drawn match between Polgar and Ioseliani, even after two tiebreaks. The match was decided by a lottery, which Ioseliani won. She was then promptly crushed by Xie Jun (8.5-2.5) in the championship at Monaco 1993.
The next cycle was dominated by Susan Polgar. She tied with Chiburdanidze in the Candidates tournament, defeated her easily in the match (5.5-1.5), and then decisively defeated Xie Jun (8.5-4.5) at Jaén 1996 for the championship.
In 1997, Russian Alisa Galliamova and Chinese Xie Jun finished first and second, but Galliamova refused to play the final match entirely in China. FIDE eventually awarded the match to Xie Jun by default.
However, by the time all these delays were sorted out, Polgar had given birth to her first child. She requested that the match be postponed. FIDE refused, and eventually set up the championship to be between Galliamova and Xie Jun. The championship was held in Kazan, Tatarstan and Shenyang, China, in 1999 and Xie Jun won with five wins, three losses, and seven draws.
In 2000, a knock-out event, similar to the FIDE men's title and held alongside it, was the new format of the women's world championship. It was won by Xie Jun. In 2001 a similar event determined the champion, Zhu Chen. Another knock-out, this one held separately from the men's event, in Elista, the capital of the Russian republic of Kalmykia (of which FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is president), from May 21 to June 8, 2004, produced Bulgarian Antoaneta Stefanova as champion. As with Polgar seven years prior, Zhu Chen did not participate due to pregnancy.
In 2006 the title returned to China. Interestingly, the new champion Xu Yuhua was pregnant during the championship.
In 2008, the title went to Russian grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk, who, in the final, beat Chinese prodigy Hou Yifan 2.5-1.5.
Posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Champion http://www.chessblog.com/Labels: Bykova, Chiburdanidze, Gaprindashvili, Kosteniuk, Menchik, Polgar, Rubtsova, Rudenko, Stefanova, Women in Chess, Women's World Chess Champions, Xie Jun, Xu Yuhua, Zhu Chen
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