World Team Chess Championship 2010
Hello everybody!
2010 just started and interesting chess tournaments are ready to begin!
I'm in Bursa, Turkey right now. A few minutes ago the opening ceremony of the men's world team championsip 2010 took place. This strong tournament with 10 best teams of the world taking part in it, will be held in Bursa, Turkey from January 5 (first round) to January 13 (last round). The games live, as well as all the news about the tournament can be found on the offisial web-site of the tournament, here. On the photo above you can see the result of the drawing of lots. According to this, in the first round, tomorrow, on the 5th of January we will see the following teams playing each other:
Azerbaijan - Armenia Turkey - USA India - Greece Russia - Brazil Egypt - Israel
I will be in Turkey for 2 more days and will attend the 1st quarter Presidential Board of FIDE meeting. I will let you know how it went in my next posts.
Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk Womens' World Chess Champion Labels: FIDE, Turkey, women's world team championship
Nice start for ladies in Antwerp
Hello dear chess friends!
Here is the latest news about the women's tournaments that are taking place right now or will start still in September.
From September 18, 2009 to September 26, 2009 the Inventi Chess tournament is taking place in Antwerp, Belgium. Among the participants are two ladies: Antoaneta Stefanova (2535) and Anna Muzychuk (2542).
The other players of this tournament are: Etienne Bacrot (2709), Gabriel Sargissian (2678), Emil Sutovsky (2676), Krishnan Sasikiran (2661), Bartosz Socko (2637), David Howell (2624), Jan Timman (2588) and Bart Michiels (2451). Today the first round was played and both Stefanova and Muzychuk won their games.
Below is the position from the game Jan Timman - Antoaneta Stefanova. White just played 24. Bxf4 what is the strongest move for Black now?
There are two wonderful photo reports by GM Ye Rongguang of the recent women's world team chess championship that took place from September 1 to September 12 in Ningbo, China,
have been published on www.chessbase.com, you can watch them here and here. Above you can see a very nice portrait of Nadezhda Kosintseva.
The Serbian Women's Chess League is taking place in Pozarevac, from September 14 to September 22nd, 2009. After 8 rounds the chess club BAS is leading with Bojkovic Natasa (2429), Gaponenko Inna (2438) Vasilevich Tatjana (2423) Stojanovic Andjelija (2323) and Drljevic Ljilja (2207). The full results and team-compositions can be found here.
Chess Queen Championship participants:
1 Hou Yifan g CHN 2585 1994 2 Zhao Xue g CHN 2542 1985 3 Ruan Lufei wg 2486 1987 4 Xu Yuhua g 2485 1976 5 Shen Yang wg 2453 1989 6 Ju Wenjun 2443 1991 7 Tan Zhongyi 2435 1991 8 Huang Qian wg 2424 1986
The First Teller Ede Memorial Chess Tournament will be held from September 24th to October 5, 2009 in Paks, Hungary. The following women are playing in this event: WGM Majdan Joanna 2382 POL, IM Vajda Szidónia 2375 HUN, WGM Gara Tícia 2354 HUN, WGM Doluhanova Evgeniya 2327 UKR, WGM Kochetkova Julia 2310 RUS, WIM Toth Lili 2172 HUN. Average rating: 2320 Category: 3. The official tournament website is http://www.ase.hu/marxgy/2009/
The 2nd Fide Women Grand Prix event is going to take place in Nanjing, China from September 27-October 9,2009. Here is the list of the participants of this event: Zhao, Xue (2544), Ju, Wenjun (2443), Dzagnidze, Nana (2536), Sebag Marie (2531) Xu, Yuhua (2485) Zhu, Chen (2473), Mrktchian, Lilit (2467), Shen, Yang (2453), Batkhuyag, Munguntuul (2412), Kovanova, Baira (2406), Fierro, Martha (2394), Yildiz, Betul (2217).
So there are many interesting events and there will be even more this autumn. As usual autumn is the golden time for chess players and fans.
Special thanks to my friend from Canada Wayne Mendryk for letting me know about some events and sending me links and all the info. :)
Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Champion Labels: chess tournaments, Stefanova, women's world team championship
CHINA is 2 times women's world team champion!
The women's world chess championship 2009 came to its end. After a very exciting last round, where China could only achieve a draw against the outsider of the tournament, the team of Vietnam. Russia, after winning 3-1 against China-2, caught up China by match points. Ukraine after a very dramatic match by some miracle also managed to win their match against Armenia 2,5 to 1,5 and also caught up China by match points.
So 3 teams shared first place by match points - China, Russia and Ukraine, both with 12 match points. But individual team points are decisive. So China took gold with 21,5 points. Russia won silver medals with 21 points and Ukraine took bronze medals with 20,5 points. The full table of results can be found here.
The best player of the championship according to points and to the percentage was Russia's Valentina Gunina (on the photo below) with 6,5 points out of 8 (81,3%).
The best player of the championship according to perfomance was Russia's Nadezhda Kosintseva (on the photo below) with a perfomance of 2608!
Congratulations to the teams and all the players for a very interesting and hard-fought championship!
Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Champion Labels: China, Gunina, Kosintseva, Russia, Ukraine, women's world team championship
Women's World Chess Team Championship
6 rounds have been played in the Women's World Team Chess Championship that is taking place from September 2 to September 12 in Ningbo, China. Tomorrow, September 8 will be a free day and then we will witness the 3 last and most important rounds. Right now the team of Poland is leading the event with 9 points and it's being followed by 4 teams - Ukraine, China-1, Georgia and Russia, all with 7 points. All of these teams have high chances of winning the gold medal of the World Women's Team Championship.
All results of the tournament can be found here. The live transmission of the games can be seen here.
Very interesting Pawn Endgame
On the diagram above is the position from the match of the second round between the teams of Ukraine and China-1. White is Muzychuk Maria playing for Ukraine, Black is Ju Wenjun playing for China-1. Black just played 51. ... g5, it's White to move. What would you play here as White?
Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Champion Labels: women's world team championship
Women's World Team Chess Championship 2009
From September 1 to September 12 the 2nd Women's World Team Chess Championship will take place in Ningbo, China. 10 of the best women's teams from around the world will take part in this prestigious event. Here is the list of the teams and participants:
Armenia:
Elina Danielyan Lilit Mkrtchyan Lilit Galoyan Nelli Aghinyan Siranush Andriasyan
China Team One:
Hou Yifan
Zhao Xue
Shen Yang
Ju Wenjun
Huang Qian
China Team Two:
Tan Zhongyi
Zhang Xiaowen
Wang Yu
Ding Yixin
Wang Xiaohui
Georgia:
Maia Chiburdanidze Nana Dzagnidze Lela Javakhisvili Maia Lomineishvili Reserve: Sopiko Khukhashvili or Salome Melia or Nino Khurtsidze
India:
Harika Dronavalli Tania Sadchev Kruttika Nadig Eesha Karavade Gomes Mary Ann
Poland:
Iweta Rajlich Jolanta Zawadzka Joanna Majdan Joanna Dworakowska Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska
Russia:
Tatiana Kosintseva Nadezhda Kosintseva Elena Tairova Marina Roman’ko Reserve: Valentina Gunina or Ekaterina Kovalevskaya
Ukraine:
Natalia Zhukova Anna Ushenina Inna Gaponenko Maria Muzychuk Natalia Zdebskaia
USA:
Irina Krush Anna Zatonskykh Rusudan Goletiani Alisa Melekhina Reserve: Tatev Abrahamian
Vietnam:
HOANG THI BAO TRAM PHAM LE THAO NGUYENHOANG THI NHU Y PHAM BICH NGOC VO THI KIM PHUNG
This should be a very interesting event and I will make sure to let you know the results as they play out.
Posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Champion Labels: China, women's world team championship
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