🅾️ #about_Kosteniuk
💢 Alexandra Kosteniuk
💢 Russian chess Grandmaster
🔰 Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk is a Russian chess grandmaster and Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010.
🔘 Full name: Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk
🔘 Country: Russia
🔘 Born: 23 April 1984 (age 34)
Perm, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (2004)
🔘 Women's World Champion: 2008–10
🔘 FIDE rating: 2552 (July 2018)
🔘 Peak rating: 2557 (April 2016)
🔰Kosteniuk learned to play chess at the age of five after being taught by her father. In 1994, she won the girls under 10 division of the European Youth Chess Championship and in 1996 she won the girls under 12 title at both the European Youth Championships and World Youth Chess Championships. At twelve years old she also became the Russian women's champion in rapid chess.
🔰In 2001, at the age of 17, she reached the final of the World Women's Chess Championship and was defeated by Zhu Chen. Three years later, she became European women's champion by winning the tournament in Dresden, Germany. Thanks to this achievement, in November 2004, she was awarded the International Grandmaster title, becoming the tenth woman to receive the highest title of the World Chess Federation (FIDE). Before that, she had also obtained the titles of Woman Grandmaster in 1998 and International Master in 2000.
🔰 She won the Russian Women's Championship in 2005 and 2016. In August 2006, she became the first Chess960 women's world champion after beating Germany's top female player Elisabeth Pähtz by 5½–2½. She defended that title successfully in 2008 by beating Kateryna Lahno 2½–1½. However, her greatest success so far has been to win the Women's World Chess Championship 2008, beating in the final the young Chinese prodigy Hou Yifan, with a score of 2½–1½. Later in the same year, she won the women's individual blitz event of the 2008 World Mind Sports Games in Beijing.
♦️ A memorable game by Kosteniuk👇
💢 Alexandra Kosteniuk vs Antoaneta Stefanova
💢 North Urals Cup (2005), Krasnoturinsk RUS, rd 5, Jul-08
💢 Spanish Game: Morphy Defense (C78)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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💢 Alexandra Kosteniuk
💢 Russian chess Grandmaster
🔰 Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk is a Russian chess grandmaster and Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010.
🔘 Full name: Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk
🔘 Country: Russia
🔘 Born: 23 April 1984 (age 34)
Perm, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
🔘 Title: Grandmaster (2004)
🔘 Women's World Champion: 2008–10
🔘 FIDE rating: 2552 (July 2018)
🔘 Peak rating: 2557 (April 2016)
🔰Kosteniuk learned to play chess at the age of five after being taught by her father. In 1994, she won the girls under 10 division of the European Youth Chess Championship and in 1996 she won the girls under 12 title at both the European Youth Championships and World Youth Chess Championships. At twelve years old she also became the Russian women's champion in rapid chess.
🔰In 2001, at the age of 17, she reached the final of the World Women's Chess Championship and was defeated by Zhu Chen. Three years later, she became European women's champion by winning the tournament in Dresden, Germany. Thanks to this achievement, in November 2004, she was awarded the International Grandmaster title, becoming the tenth woman to receive the highest title of the World Chess Federation (FIDE). Before that, she had also obtained the titles of Woman Grandmaster in 1998 and International Master in 2000.
🔰 She won the Russian Women's Championship in 2005 and 2016. In August 2006, she became the first Chess960 women's world champion after beating Germany's top female player Elisabeth Pähtz by 5½–2½. She defended that title successfully in 2008 by beating Kateryna Lahno 2½–1½. However, her greatest success so far has been to win the Women's World Chess Championship 2008, beating in the final the young Chinese prodigy Hou Yifan, with a score of 2½–1½. Later in the same year, she won the women's individual blitz event of the 2008 World Mind Sports Games in Beijing.
♦️ A memorable game by Kosteniuk👇
💢 Alexandra Kosteniuk vs Antoaneta Stefanova
💢 North Urals Cup (2005), Krasnoturinsk RUS, rd 5, Jul-08
💢 Spanish Game: Morphy Defense (C78)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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☑️ Chess History - Tournaments
🛄 Sparkassen Chess Meeting Dortmund 2002
🔹 World Championship Candidates’ Tournament at the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2002 will be held in Dortmund between the 6th & 22nd of July 2002.
Games finished in July 21st.
Dortmund is one of the traditional chess strongholds in the world and it is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
🔹The Federal Chancellor, Dr Gerhard Schroeder, will be the patron of this top-level event.
🔹The Einstein candidates tournament at the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2002 starting July 6th, at 3 p.m.
🔸 The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite chess tournament held every summer in Dortmund, Germany. Dortmund is an invite-only event, with the exception that one slot at Dortmund is awarded to the winner of the annual Aeroflot Open in Moscow.
🔸 The tournament is usually played in a round-robin or double round-robin format. However, it took the form of a series of heads-up matches in 2002 and 2004. The 2002 Dortmund event was also notable in that it served as the Candidates Tournament for the Classical World Chess Championship 2004. Péter Lékó won, defeating Veselin Topalov in the finals.
✔️ The final standing and full games results are as above👆
♦️ Download Dortmund 2002 games database by PGN format👇👇
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#Dortmund_2002
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☑️ Chess History - Tournaments
🛄 Sparkassen Chess Meeting Dortmund 2002
🔹 World Championship Candidates’ Tournament at the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2002 will be held in Dortmund between the 6th & 22nd of July 2002.
Games finished in July 21st.
Dortmund is one of the traditional chess strongholds in the world and it is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
🔹The Federal Chancellor, Dr Gerhard Schroeder, will be the patron of this top-level event.
🔹The Einstein candidates tournament at the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2002 starting July 6th, at 3 p.m.
🔸 The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite chess tournament held every summer in Dortmund, Germany. Dortmund is an invite-only event, with the exception that one slot at Dortmund is awarded to the winner of the annual Aeroflot Open in Moscow.
🔸 The tournament is usually played in a round-robin or double round-robin format. However, it took the form of a series of heads-up matches in 2002 and 2004. The 2002 Dortmund event was also notable in that it served as the Candidates Tournament for the Classical World Chess Championship 2004. Péter Lékó won, defeating Veselin Topalov in the finals.
✔️ The final standing and full games results are as above👆
♦️ Download Dortmund 2002 games database by PGN format👇👇
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#chess_history_tornaments
#Dortmund_2002
@unitychess
♦️ A memorable game from Dortmund 2002👇
🔘 Alexey Shirov vs Peter Leko
🔘 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (2002), Dortmund GER, rd 3, Jul-15
🔘 Sicilian Defense: Nezhmetdinov-Rossolimo Attack. Fianchetto Variation (B31)
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🔘 Alexey Shirov vs Peter Leko
🔘 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (2002), Dortmund GER, rd 3, Jul-15
🔘 Sicilian Defense: Nezhmetdinov-Rossolimo Attack. Fianchetto Variation (B31)
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🔰 The PGN format game in Dortmund 2002 Games Database👆👆
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22...Rc8?
A wrong decision that creates a passive position for Black.
(22... g6 23. R1e7 Kg7=)
23. Qd7 Rd8 24. Rxd8 Qxd8 25. Re7 Qc8 26. Qxc8 Rxc8 27. Kf2 Kf8 28. Rxa7 Rc2+ 29. Ke3 Rxh2 30. d5 1-0
A wrong decision that creates a passive position for Black.
(22... g6 23. R1e7 Kg7=)
23. Qd7 Rd8 24. Rxd8 Qxd8 25. Re7 Qc8 26. Qxc8 Rxc8 27. Kf2 Kf8 28. Rxa7 Rc2+ 29. Ke3 Rxh2 30. d5 1-0
17... Qf4?!
Kramnik intends to take his pawn back. However, 17... Re8 would have been better.
18. Bg3 Nxg3 19. hxg3 Qxg3 20. c5! Qg6
(20... Bxc5?? 21. Ne4 +-)
21. Rc1 Qf7 22. Ne4 Re8 23. Re1 Bf5 24. Ng3 Rxe1+ 25. Qxe1 Bg4
(25...Qxd5)
26. Qe4 +/-
Kramnik intends to take his pawn back. However, 17... Re8 would have been better.
18. Bg3 Nxg3 19. hxg3 Qxg3 20. c5! Qg6
(20... Bxc5?? 21. Ne4 +-)
21. Rc1 Qf7 22. Ne4 Re8 23. Re1 Bf5 24. Ng3 Rxe1+ 25. Qxe1 Bg4
(25...Qxd5)
26. Qe4 +/-