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	Stefanova Antoaneta	BUL	2518	8.5	61.5
2	GM	Kosteniuk Alexandra	RUS	2457	8.0	61.5
3	GM	Koneru Humpy	IND	2589	8.0	60.5
4	GM	Lahno Kateryna	UKR	2546	8.0	57.5
5	GM	Muzychuk Anna	SLO	2598	7.5	59.5
6	GM	Harika Dronavalli	IND	2508	7.5	53.0
7	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	GEO	2547	7.0	53.0
8	GM	Cramling Pia	SWE	2478	6.5	57.5
9	GM	Zhao Xue	CHN	2549	6.5	56.0
10	WGM	Guo Qi	CHN	2360	6.5	56.0
11	IM	Paehtz Elisabeth	GER	2491	6.5	54.5
12	WGM	Tan Zhongyi	CHN	2430	6.5	54.0
13	IM	Javakhishvili Lela	GEO	2449	6.5	52.0
14	GM	Zhukova Natalia	UKR	2442	6.5	52.0
15	GM	Zhu Chen	QAT	2491	6.5	52.0
16	GM	Kosintseva Tatiana	RUS	2532	6.5	48.0
17	WGM	Huang Qian	CHN	2417	6.0	62.5
18	IM	Khurtsidze Nino	GEO	2456	6.0	58.5
19		Wang Jue	CHN	2364	6.0	55.5
20	IM	Gunina Valentina	RUS	2530	6.0	54.5
21	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	ARM	2449	6.0	51.0
22	IM	Ushenina Anna	UKR	2454	5.5	52.0
23	GM	Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan	SCO	2426	5.5	51.0
24	WGM	Batsiashvili Nino	GEO	2436	5.5	50.0
25	IM	Melia Salome	GEO	2410	5.5	46.0
26	WGM	Pogonina Natalija	RUS	2447	5.5	46.0
27	GM	Danielian Elina	ARM	2484	5.5	45.0
28	IM	Khukhashvili Sopiko	GEO	2414	5.5	43.0
29	IM	Gvetadze Sofio	GEO	2338	5.0	53.0
30	IM	Muzychuk Mariya	UKR	2456	5.0	51.0
31	GM	Chiburdanidze Maia	GEO	2500	5.0	49.5
32	WGM	Cori T Deysi	PER	2386	5.0	47.5
33	WGM	Ding Yixin	CHN	2353	5.0	45.0
34	IM	Purtseladze Maka	GEO	2348	5.0	44.0
35	IM	Krush Irina	USA	2457	5.0	43.0
36	IM	Lomineishvili Maia	GEO	2366	5.0	41.5
37	IM	Kovalevskaya Ekaterina	RUS	2417	4.5	48.5
38	GM	Socko Monika	POL	2484	4.5	48.0
39	WGM	Mammadova Gulnar	AZE	2345	4.5	47.5
40	IM	Matnadze Ana	ESP	2446	4.5	44.0
41	WIM	Mikadze Miranda	GEO	2323	4.5	41.5
42	WIM	Arabidze Meri	GEO	2351	4.5	41.0
43	WGM	Charkhalashvili Inga	GEO	2334	4.5	41.0
44	WIM	Janjghava Natia	GEO	2306	4.0	42.0
45	IM	Klinova Masha	ISR	2318	3.5	46.0
46	IM	Khotenashvili Bela	GEO	2500	3.5	44.5
47	IM	Gurieli Nino	GEO	2329	3.5	40.5
48	WIM	Umudova Nargiz	AZE	2231	3.0	39.5
49	WIM	Bezgodova Svetlana	RUS	2120	2.5	44.5
50	GM	Gaprindashvili Nona	GEO	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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