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!
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Rk.
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Name
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FED
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Rtg
|
Pts
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TB1
|
|
|
1
|
GM
|
2518
|
8.5
|
61.5
|
||
|
2
|
GM
|
2457
|
8.0
|
61.5
|
||
|
3
|
GM
|
2589
|
8.0
|
60.5
|
||
|
4
|
GM
|
2546
|
8.0
|
57.5
|
||
|
5
|
GM
|
2598
|
7.5
|
59.5
|
||
|
6
|
GM
|
2508
|
7.5
|
53.0
|
||
|
7
|
GM
|
2547
|
7.0
|
53.0
|
||
|
8
|
GM
|
2478
|
6.5
|
57.5
|
||
|
9
|
GM
|
2549
|
6.5
|
56.0
|
||
|
10
|
WGM
|
2360
|
6.5
|
56.0
|
||
|
11
|
IM
|
2491
|
6.5
|
54.5
|
||
|
12
|
WGM
|
2430
|
6.5
|
54.0
|
||
|
13
|
IM
|
2449
|
6.5
|
52.0
|
||
|
14
|
GM
|
2442
|
6.5
|
52.0
|
||
|
15
|
GM
|
2491
|
6.5
|
52.0
|
||
|
16
|
GM
|
2532
|
6.5
|
48.0
|
||
|
17
|
WGM
|
2417
|
6.0
|
62.5
|
||
|
18
|
IM
|
2456
|
6.0
|
58.5
|
||
|
19
|
2364
|
6.0
|
55.5
|
|||
|
20
|
IM
|
2530
|
6.0
|
54.5
|
||
|
21
|
IM
|
2449
|
6.0
|
51.0
|
||
|
22
|
IM
|
2454
|
5.5
|
52.0
|
||
|
23
|
GM
|
2426
|
5.5
|
51.0
|
||
|
24
|
WGM
|
2436
|
5.5
|
50.0
|
||
|
25
|
IM
|
2410
|
5.5
|
46.0
|
||
|
26
|
WGM
|
2447
|
5.5
|
46.0
|
||
|
27
|
GM
|
2484
|
5.5
|
45.0
|
||
|
28
|
IM
|
2414
|
5.5
|
43.0
|
||
|
29
|
IM
|
2338
|
5.0
|
53.0
|
||
|
30
|
IM
|
2456
|
5.0
|
51.0
|
||
|
31
|
GM
|
2500
|
5.0
|
49.5
|
||
|
32
|
WGM
|
2386
|
5.0
|
47.5
|
||
|
33
|
WGM
|
2353
|
5.0
|
45.0
|
||
|
34
|
IM
|
2348
|
5.0
|
44.0
|
||
|
35
|
IM
|
2457
|
5.0
|
43.0
|
||
|
36
|
IM
|
2366
|
5.0
|
41.5
|
||
|
37
|
IM
|
2417
|
4.5
|
48.5
|
||
|
38
|
GM
|
2484
|
4.5
|
48.0
|
||
|
39
|
WGM
|
2345
|
4.5
|
47.5
|
||
|
40
|
IM
|
2446
|
4.5
|
44.0
|
||
|
41
|
WIM
|
2323
|
4.5
|
41.5
|
||
|
42
|
WIM
|
2351
|
4.5
|
41.0
|
||
|
43
|
WGM
|
2334
|
4.5
|
41.0
|
||
|
44
|
WIM
|
2306
|
4.0
|
42.0
|
||
|
45
|
IM
|
2318
|
3.5
|
46.0
|
||
|
46
|
IM
|
2500
|
3.5
|
44.5
|
||
|
47
|
IM
|
2329
|
3.5
|
40.5
|
||
|
48
|
WIM
|
2231
|
3.0
|
39.5
|
||
|
49
|
WIM
|
2120
|
2.5
|
44.5
|
||
|
50
|
GM
|
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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Congratulations 🙂