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Posts Tagged ‘Alexandra Kosteniuk’February 6th, 2011My Games from The Moscow Chess Open 2011
I am pleased to report that I won the prestigious 2011 Moscow Chess Open Women’s Invitational, with 7/9. I made a long post on www.chessblog.com about it. By clicking on “more…” below you can watch all 9 games I played. Thanks to everyone on Twitter (English, Russian) and Facebook who supported me along the way. January 3rd, 2011Chess Queen Kosteniuk’s new LiveJournal Russian Blog
On the Eve of Christmas, I got a wonderful present from a girl named Olesya. She had registered a few years ago the nickname “chessqueen” on Livejournal. Then she found me with that same nick on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and decided to gift me the nick on Livejournal too! Read more… September 11th, 2010Kosteniuk in TV show Bolshie Gonki
September 5th, 2010Chess Queen Kosteniuk tops 100K Twitter followers
I just want to let you know that I passed the milestone of 100,000 followers on Twitter. Twitter has now become a major social network with millions of members, and as you can see lots of chess players. You can visit my Twitter page at http://twitter.com/chessqueen and sign up to follow my updates (it’s free to join Twitter). There are some Chess GM’s on Twitter, a good list can be found on twitterchess.com. Check out also my Facebook page & YouTube channel. Posted by Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk, women’s world chess champion August 3rd, 2010How I became the Chess Queen ®
Lots of people have asked me why I’m called the “Chess Queen”, so I decided to write an illustrated post about it. It all started in 2001, when I was 17 years old. My rating was 2469 and I had the titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and Men International Master (IM). June 22nd, 2010Trivia – Where am I training?
Hello everybody! As you know, last week I was in St. Petersburg at the Economic Forum, then I went back to Moscow, and then took a plane to go to a training camp. Very few people know where that is. But if with the help of this photo you are the first to guess exactly where it is, I will give you a prize! Here’s a bigger version of the photo, maybe it helps: Read more… June 17th, 2010Chess Queen Oranges on eBay?
I can’t resist checking daily on eBay if there is anything interesting which has a “chess motive” (that’s the keyword “chess”), black & white squares, or any chess pieces. My home is full with chess paintings, chess lamps, chess cushions, big chess pieces. I won’t speak of chess sets, some people say I have too many of those (I don’t agree). Finally, if you’re not convinced, I wear chess shoes, chess belts and chess hair clips, obviously. So you can imagine the nice surprise Read more… June 13th, 2010Kosteniuk Charity Simul for Cancer Survivors
On June 10, in Moscow, I gave a VIP charity simul to benefit children in very tough situations, without parents or who became incapacitated. The announcement of the event can be found here and photos of the event are here. Each person playing paid $500 which went directly to the charity for the kids. June 13th, 2010Alexandra Kosteniuk’s Blog moves to www.chessqueen.com
Hello everybody! I am glad to announce that I have moved my personal blog to this site www.chessqueen.com. It’s more in line with my identity Chess Queen®, which I follow on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. If you have any questions you can email me to chessqueen@me.com. |
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