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October 2nd, 2010

Alexandra Kosteniuk's team won the Chess Olympiads

At the Chess Olympiads of Khanty-Mansiysk, Alexandra’s team Russia-1 (comprised of Tatiana Kosintseva, Nadezhda Kosintseva, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Alisa Galliamova, and Valentina Gunina), is guaranteed to win Gold. The team got 10 match win in 10 rounds, not even one match drawn or lost. That’s 20 match points, with the closest follower China with only 16 match points, and then 4 teams with 15 match points (Ukraine, Georgia, Russia-2 and Poland). See the rankings after 10 rounds. Read Alexandra’s post about it on chessblog.com. Tomorrow is the last round then we will have lots of photos and even video from the prize ceremony.



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