Queen Kosteniuk wins Gold at Mind Sport Games Chess Rapid 2011
I’m so pleased to announce that I won the first Gold medal at the 2011 Mind Sport Games women’s chess rapid event, with 6 out of 7 (wins against Zatonskih, Dzagnidze, Paehtz, Dembo, Lahno and draws againt Ju and A. Muzychuk). Silver went to Kateryna Lahno and Bronze to Nana Dzagnidze, congratulations to them too! The competition was very tough, read what was published on the official site: “The former World champion and Ambassador of the SportAccord World Mind Games, GM Alexandra Kosteniuk from Russia crowned a successful performance and even won the last game of the rapid tourney against Yelena Dembo. She became the first female winner of this very interesting competition. Finally, she scored 6 points out of 7 – what a brilliant result!”
“She had an overall performance of just under 2600. We have to mention, that this year was not the best in her career – so, we welcome this “comeback” of Russian player.
Katerina Lahno from Ukraine scored 4,5 points and was 2-nd because of better tie-break. Nana Dzagnidze (GEO) and Ju Wenjun from China had the same result, but the Georgian player was happy to be 3-d for the same reason.
Women World Champion, Hou Yifan got bogged down in draws and as sport is so unpredictable, we could not have had more interesting results. China, which was tipped to take the Gold medal in the Women ended up with a Gold medal in the Men and no medal in the women.”
Here is the full results table:
Sportaccord World Mind Games | ||||||||||
Rapid – Women | ||||||||||
Final Ranking | ||||||||||
Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | FED | Pts. | Res. | vict | MBl | RtgØ | |
1 | 16 | GM | Kosteniuk Alexandra | 2439 | RUS | 6 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2524 |
2 | 3 | GM | Lahno Kateryna | 2549 | UKR | 4½ | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2507 |
3 | 6 | GM | Dzagnidze Nana | 2516 | GEO | 4½ | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2515 |
4 | 4 | WGM | Ju Wenjun | 2543 | CHN | 4½ | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2510 |
5 | 7 | GM | Harika Dronavalli | 2512 | IND | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2486 |
6 | 1 | GM | Hou Yifan | 2578 | CHN | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2528 |
7 | 2 | IM | Muzychuk Anna | 2562 | SLO | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2519 |
8 | 13 | IM | Dembo Yelena | 2468 | GRE | 3½ | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2510 |
9 | 11 | GM | Cramling Pia | 2495 | SWE | 3½ | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2535 |
10 | 5 | GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | 2531 | BUL | 3½ | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2501 |
11 | 15 | IM | Paehtz Elisabeth | 2457 | GER | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2529 |
12 | 12 | GM | Socko Monika | 2479 | POL | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2524 |
13 | 9 | GM | Cmilyte Viktorija | 2503 | LTU | 2½ | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2513 |
14 | 14 | IM | Skripchenko Almira | 2468 | FRA | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2524 |
15 | 8 | IM | Zatonskih Anna | 2506 | USA | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2498 |
16 | 10 | GM | Danielian Elina | 2497 | ARM | 1½ | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2522 |
I’m quite happy after getting my Gold medal!
Gold: Alexandra Kosteniuk, Silver: Kateryna Lahno, Bronze: Nana Dzagnidze
Tags: chess rapid, mind sport games 2011
Posted in Chess | 15 Comments »
Dear Alexandra,
Congratulations. I am never surprised when I see you win.
With Love,
Ron
Congratulations celebrations awesome performance in a great field with the likes of hou yifan, kateryna lahno, stefanova and all the others. surely one of your best performances!
Congrats Alexandra.
A Great and impressive performance.
2011 will end well for you
Thx for sharing he nice pics and succes witht the rest of the tournament !!
Александра самая лучшая!! Да здравствует Королева Шахмат!!!
Congratulations!! Is the “Gold medal” really made from gold?
hip hip hurray
absolutely typical of the greatest chess queen the one and only – fantastic chess dear – truly – rocking performance just under 2600 I think that too in such a strong field with the likes of yifan, lahno, and others…
Always a delight to see you win. Chess Queen lots of good wishes and god bless from all your fans at our club. We wish you a superb performance ahead making all your fans so proud of you. You are a TRUE CHESS QUEEN – complete person.
Congratulations Alexandra Kosteniuk the Chess Queen for your conquest of Beijing. Good job. Keep it up. You kept your head down, stayed focused and still went for a last-round win despite a draw being enough for the title. That IS THE SPIRIT. A pleasure to host you in Beijing.
You have truly brought nice sunshine to Beijing dearest Alexandra Kosteniuk the chess queen!
What a solid performance particularly liked your wins more than the draws. All the best in Blitz.
All the best for your second day of blitz. Focus and play well dearest Chess Queen. I have already brought champagne to share with friends to celebrate your Rapid GOLD MEDAL> Want more!!!!
Chess queen you are the best. The attacking style is the best part about your chess. Not sitting around pushing wood not fighting for an inch here or inch there – going all out for the menacing carpet bombing. I call you my cheetah chess queen!
Don’t forget I am your most ardent fan.
congratulations Chess Queen. You are very strong player. I happy to know of you plus being reading about you. Always a pleasure. MY WIShes are always best for your wins. THe Queen of the Chessboard the queen of the planet. From land of line I wish the queen
I correct mine comment. From Land of Nile the great land greetings to a great queen. Bow in Honour.