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August 26th, 2012

The Russian Women’s Chess Olympiad Team is ready for Istanbul 2012

The Russian Olympic chess team 2012The 2012 Istanbul Chess Olympiads are starting tomorrow, we just finished our 10-day training camps in the outskirts of Moscow. I will be playing as usual with the Russian national chess team (we’re the defending champions of the last Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 Olympiads). We have a terrific line-up:


GM Tatiana Kosintseva (2530)
GM Nadezhda Kosintseva (2524)
IM Valentina Gunina (2507)
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (2489)
WGM Natalija Pogonina (2448)


We have three coaches dedicated to our women’s team: GM Sergei Rublevsky (2693), GM Alexander Riazantsev  (2712), and GM Evgeniy Najer (2664).


If you have an iPhone or iPad you can follow the results at any moment with the free 2012 Olympiad iOS app.


Here’s the photo a little bigger:


Russian Chess National Team for the 2012 Chess Olympiads in Istanbul


Posted by Chess Queen™ Alexandra Kosteniuk
12th women’s World Chess Champion
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10 Responses to “The Russian Women’s Chess Olympiad Team is ready for Istanbul 2012”

  1. anonymous says:

    just be careful with the chinese and ukraine and georgia a but rest is piece of cake GOLD FOR RUSSIA