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Archive for January, 2010

January 13th, 2010

Kosteniuk signing session at Books and Books

Today was Alexandra’s first book signing for her newly released book “Diary of a Chess Queen“, in Coral Gable’s Books & Books. As the last book signing, it was a lively question and answer and most attendees left with an autographed copy of Alexandra’s book.

Read Alexandra’s report with photos of this event on her chess blog. On the photo to the left you can see Grandmaster Julio Becerra who just got his copy of Alexandra’s book. If you’d like to order your own copy with free autograph, you can do it on Alexandra’s web shop.


January 12th, 2010

Alexandra published a sample YouTube video of her new upcoming DVD “Chess Blitz Fever”, which will contain tips about playing better blitz chess, as well as her wins, fully commented against world rated #1 Magnus Carlsen, World Champion Vishy Anand, and super-GM’s Grischuk, Morozevich, Aronian, Gashimov, Judith Polgar, and Naiditsch. The DVD will hit the shelves by the end of February, free shipping if you pre-order it before then.


January 8th, 2010

Kosteniuk signing session at Barnes and Noble

Yesterday was Alexandra’s first book signing for her newly released book “Diary of a Chess Queen“, in the beautiful bookstore Barnes & Noble of Aventura, Florida. Lots of people came to her talk and signing session, the questions and answers kept everyone interested and tuned in to chess 100%. Read Alexandra’s report with photos of this event on her chess blog. On the photo to the left is Alexandra and her promising student Rachel Gologorsky. There will be one book signing on Monday 8 PM at the Books & Books of Coral Gables, Florida. If you miss it, you can order your copy with free autograph on Alexandra’s web shop.


January 1st, 2010

Kosteniuk on Zolotoi Grammofon

Alexandra promoted chess to thousands of live spectators and millions of TV viewers on January 1, 2010, on the top TV program “Zolotoi Grammofon”, which is the Russian Music Oscars event of the year. She handed an oscar to famous singer Stas Pekha. The YouTube video presented is 9-minute summary of the 2-hour program. Since the video is in Russian, Alexandra posted an explanation post of what is said around minutes 3-4 of this video on her chess blog.