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June 5th, 2012

Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk gets Silver & 4th at the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships

Hello everyone!
I’m in Batumi, Georgia, and just finished the two incredibly strong Women’s World Rapid and Women’s World Blitz Championships. Although I always want to do better, I’m pretty happy of my result, Silver medal in the Rapid with a performance of 2672 ELO, behind Antoaneta Stefanova, and 4th in the Blitz, with a performance of 2583, behind Valentina Gunina, Natalia Zhukova, and Anna Muzychuk. Have a look at the full Rapid and Blitz tables. Below I attach some photos of the event. I have videos of many of my games, and will post them soon on my YouTube channel “ChessQueen”. Tomorrow I’m going to go sight-seeing in Batumi, so you will have more photos too!



Above: That’s me right before one of my games



Above: The six winners of the event:
In the Rapid: Stefanova, Kosteniuk, Koneru
In the Blitz: Gunina, Zhukova, A. Muzychuk



Above: We’re all cutting the winners cake!



Above: Alexandra Kosteniuk With Natalia Zhukova, World Vice Champions (Rapid/Blitz)



Above: The winners with the organizer Giorgi Giorgadze and the ACP President Emil Sutovsky



Above: Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk with the 2012 Women’s World Blitz Chess Champion Valentina Gunina



Expect more photos and videos from me, very soon!


Below is the Full Table of the Women’s Rapid World Chess Championship, then below the full table for the blitz. You will see from the names, titles, and ratings that those were two of the strongest women’s chess tournaments on the planet!

Rk.

Name
FED
Rtg
Pts
TB1
1
GM
2518
8.5
61.5
2
GM
2457
8.0
61.5
3
GM
2589
8.0
60.5
4
GM
2546
8.0
57.5
5
GM
2598
7.5
59.5
6
GM
2508
7.5
53.0
7
GM
2547
7.0
53.0
8
GM
2478
6.5
57.5
9
GM
2549
6.5
56.0
10
WGM
2360
6.5
56.0
11
IM
2491
6.5
54.5
12
WGM
2430
6.5
54.0
13
IM
2449
6.5
52.0
14
GM
2442
6.5
52.0
15
GM
2491
6.5
52.0
16
GM
2532
6.5
48.0
17
WGM
2417
6.0
62.5
18
IM
2456
6.0
58.5
19

2364
6.0
55.5
20
IM
2530
6.0
54.5
21
IM
2449
6.0
51.0
22
IM
2454
5.5
52.0
23
GM
2426
5.5
51.0
24
WGM
2436
5.5
50.0
25
IM
2410
5.5
46.0
26
WGM
2447
5.5
46.0
27
GM
2484
5.5
45.0
28
IM
2414
5.5
43.0
29
IM
2338
5.0
53.0
30
IM
2456
5.0
51.0
31
GM
2500
5.0
49.5
32
WGM
2386
5.0
47.5
33
WGM
2353
5.0
45.0
34
IM
2348
5.0
44.0
35
IM
2457
5.0
43.0
36
IM
2366
5.0
41.5
37
IM
2417
4.5
48.5
38
GM
2484
4.5
48.0
39
WGM
2345
4.5
47.5
40
IM
2446
4.5
44.0
41
WIM
2323
4.5
41.5
42
WIM
2351
4.5
41.0
43
WGM
2334
4.5
41.0
44
WIM
2306
4.0
42.0
45
IM
2318
3.5
46.0
46
IM
2500
3.5
44.5
47
IM
2329
3.5
40.5
48
WIM
2231
3.0
39.5
49
WIM
2120
2.5
44.5
50
GM
2356
2.0
39.0



Final Ranking after 15 Rounds, Women’s World Blitz Championship

Rk.
Name FED Rtg Pts.
1 IM Gunina Valentina RUS 2530 13.0
2 GM Zhukova Natalia UKR 2442 10.5
3 GM Muzychuk Anna SLO 2598 10.5
4 GM Kosteniuk Alexandra RUS 2457 10.0
5 GM Stefanova Antoaneta BUL 2518 9.5
6 GM Dzagnidze Nana GEO 2547 9.5
7 WGM Ding Yixin CHN 2353 9.5
8 GM Lahno Kateryna UKR 2546 9.0
9 GM Chiburdanidze Maia GEO 2500 9.0
10 WGM Tan Zhongyi CHN 2430 9.0
11 IM Lomineishvili Maia GEO 2366 9.0
12 IM Melia Salome GEO 2410 9.0
13 IM Ushenina Anna UKR 2454 9.0
14 WGM Batsiashvili Nino GEO 2436 8.5
15 IM Matnadze Ana ESP 2446 8.5
16 IM Khotenashvili Bela GEO 2500 8.5
17 IM Muzychuk Mariya UKR 2456 8.0
18 WGM Cori T Deysi PER 2386 8.0
19 GM Zhao Xue CHN 2549 8.0
20 GM Koneru Humpy IND 2589 8.0
21 WIM Mammadova Gulnar AZE 2345 8.0
22 WGM Pogonina Natalija RUS 2447 8.0
23 WIM Arabidze Meri GEO 2351 8.0
24 WGM Huang Qian CHN 2417 7.5
25 IM Paehtz Elisabeth GER 2491 7.5
26 GM Cramling Pia SWE 2478 7.5
27 IM Krush Irina USA 2457 7.5
28 WGM Guo Qi CHN 2360 7.5
29 GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO 2426 7.0
30 IM Khurtsidze Nino GEO 2456 7.0
31 IM Purtseladze Maka GEO 2348 7.0
32 GM Harika Dronavalli IND 2508 7.0
33 IM Gvetadze Sofio GEO 2338 7.0
34 IM Mkrtchian Lilit ARM 2449 7.0
35 WIM Mikadze Miranda GEO 2323 7.0
36 GM Kosintseva Tatiana RUS 2532 6.5
37
Wang Jue CHN 2364 6.5
38 IM Khukhashvili Sopiko GEO 2414 6.5
39 GM Socko Monika POL 2484 6.0
40 GM Danielian Elina ARM 2484 6.0
41 IM Kovalevskaya Ekaterina RUS 2417 6.0
42 WGM Charkhalashvili Inga GEO 2334 6.0
43 GM Zhu Chen QAT 2491 6.0
44 IM Javakhishvili Lela GEO 2449 6.0
45 WIM Janjghava Natia GEO 2306 5.5
46 IM Klinova Masha ISR 2318 5.0
47 WIM Umudova Nargiz AZE 2231 4.0
48 IM Gurieli Nino GEO 2329 3.5
49 WIM Bezgodova Svetlana RUS 2120 3.5
50 GM Gaprindashvili Nona GEO 2356 3.5


Posted by Chess Queen™ Alexandra Kosteniuk
12th Women’s World Chess Champion
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10 Responses to “Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk gets Silver & 4th at the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships”

  1. anastasia says:

    All the best for Kazan. Win ALL. 🙂 Chess Queen.