Our photo album of Alexandra’s trip to Gmunden, including the simul is online. Enjoy!

We hope you will enjoy the 10 minute video of Alexandra commenting her blitz game against Jackova. Click here to see it.

Alexandra just came back from a long chess weekend in Gmunden, Austria. On Friday she participated in a fun blitz tournament, scored 9/13 and got the highest rating performance, beating I. Krush, J. Jackova, and both T. and E. Paehtz. We have all of Alexandra’s blitz games in video and will soon be able to present them to you. On Saturday, Alexandra took on 26 players of all levels in the beautiful Esplanade in front of the Traunsee lake. Tomorrow we’ll post a nice photo album of the event.

Today September 12 is the 20th birthday of Alexandra’s little sister, Oxana. We would like to congratulate Oxana, and wish her lots of happiness, love, and many new and exciting events in her life. Oxana has just started her 4th year at the Moscow State University, in the Journalism Department. She’s currently working at the company Sportbox, writing daily chess news. If you know Russian, you can read them here.

Alexandra Kosteniuk and Garry Kasparov will be the guests of honor at the 17th Senior World Championships 2007 in the charming town of Gmunden, Austria, on September 21 and 22, 2007. Alexandra will play a blitz tournament on Friday night at 9 PM and on Saturday at 3 PM she will give a simultaneous exhibition to Austrian fans. The organizers have secured to fans of Alexandra up to three free spots in the simul, so if you have any chance to make it on the 22nd of September to Gmunden, please send us an email and we will reserve a free spot for you. Only 3 free spots available, so hurry!