Chess Queen Kosteniuk passes 150K Twitter Followers

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Hi everybody!

The life of a chess player is in constant competition. Some of those competitions are real and toughly fought, for example the Moscow Chess Open, which is taking place right now.

Some other competitions are virtual, for example, the recent ChessCafe Book of the Year Contest, which ends tonight. If you haven't yet sent an email to bookoftheyear@chesscafe.com to support Alexandra Kosteniuk's "Diary of a Chess Queen" book, please do so now. We will be sending out prizes to people who write and send a copy of the support email to Alexandra. The results will be published on February 2, we are told. See our original post.

Today we hear about a new web competition, this time in Russia, it's by RUNET and it's goal is to find out who's the top Russian micro-blogger around. While Alexandra Kosteniuk has over 120,000 followers in her English Twitter account @chessqueen, started 2 years ago, she has only around 700 followers in her Russian account which she just recently started @kosteniuk.

To support Alexandra, you will need to either have a FACEBOOK or a TWITTER account. If you do, please CLICK HERE and then select either the Facebook or Twitter button and send the tweet, hopefully, your vote will be counted.

Thanks for your support!

The CHESS BLOG Team

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Chess Queen amazed by Twitter

Hi guys & gals!

I'm sure you know that I am hooked to Twitter, and have my Twitter account with over 100,000 followers (called @chessqueen - the full link is www.twitter.com/chessqueen).

I usually tweet in English, but once in awhile I tweet in Russian, both to answer to people who write to me in Russian, and also to talk about events which take place in Russia.

Well just a few moments ago I made a tweet in Russian (see it here), to thank people for supporting me during the Chess Olympiads which just ended with the victory of my team. I wondered if English-speaking tweeps would wonder what I'm talking about and should I translate my tweet or not.

Well, believe it or not, I just saw a tweet addressed to me with a translation of my tweet into English, but not only that, also it was delivered in a video where it it sung with music! I was amazed, this is so nice, original, and as it turns out, even useful!

Here is the tweet I got with video attached. I attach also the video below.

Thanks to @wesingyourtweet for that!! I'm now definitely following them on Twitter!

Now you too follow me on Twitter, it's lots of fun, and as you see, unexpected nice surprises do happen!

Posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk

Chess Queen™ and reigning women's world chess champion

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Chess on twitter: Have you tried it yet?

Alexandra Kosteniuk's Chess News & Trivia (c) 2010

Hello Everyone,

Do you know you there are lots of chess players on Twitter?

There is a site that keeps track of most chess players on Twitter, it's called TwitterChess.

You can list yourself there and see if there are chess players you'd like to follow on Twitter.

You can also play chess even on twitter!

ChessTweets is the newest generation of correspondence chess. ChessTweets uses the Twitter API to send chess moves remotely to your oppenent by using any of Twitter's versatile status update methods. With a Twitter account, play a quick game against a friend or start a correspondence game for free and without any registration required!

You can play against the entire ChessTweetsYou community or start your own remote chess game with a friend!

You can log in with your twitter account and then decide to start a new game or join in with the others in a community game. It's fun.

It is actually an amazing artificial intelligence experiment also. Read all about it here and join in.

And make sure also to follow Chess Queen's Kosteniuk Twitter page here:

http://twitter.com/chessqueen

From Alexandra Kosteniuk's

www.chessblog.com

Also see her personal blog at

www.chessqueen.com