Queen Kosteniuk wins Gold at Mind Sport Games Chess Rapid 2011

I’m so pleased to announce that I won the first Gold medal at the 2011 Mind Sport Games women’s chess rapid event, with 6 out of 7 (wins against Zatonskih, Dzagnidze, Paehtz, Dembo, Lahno and draws againt Ju and  A. Muzychuk).  Silver went to Kateryna Lahno and Bronze to Nana Dzagnidze, congratulations to them too! The competition was very tough, read what was published on the official site: “The former World champion and Ambassador of the SportAccord World Mind Games, GM Alexandra Kosteniuk from Russia crowned a successful performance and even won the last game of the rapid tourney against Yelena Dembo. She became the first female winner of this very interesting competition. Finally, she scored 6 points out of 7 – what a brilliant result!”

“She had an overall performance of just under 2600. We have to mention, that this year was not the best in her career – so, we welcome this “comeback” of Russian player.
Katerina Lahno from Ukraine scored 4,5 points and was 2-nd because of better tie-break. Nana Dzagnidze (GEO) and Ju Wenjun from China had the same result, but the Georgian player was happy to be 3-d for the same reason.
Women World Champion, Hou Yifan got bogged down in draws and as sport is so unpredictable, we could not have had more interesting results. China, which was tipped to take the Gold medal in the Women ended up with a Gold medal in the Men and no medal in the women.”

 

 

Here is the full results table:

Sportaccord World Mind Games
Rapid – Women
Final Ranking
Rank	SNo.		Name	Rtg	FED	Pts.	Res.	vict	MBl	RtgØ
1	16	GM	Kosteniuk Alexandra	2439	RUS	6	0	5	3	2524
2	3	GM	Lahno Kateryna	2549	UKR	4½	0	4	4	2507
3	6	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2516	GEO	4½	0	3	3	2515
4	4	WGM	Ju Wenjun	2543	CHN	4½	0	2	4	2510
5	7	GM	Harika Dronavalli	2512	IND	4	0	3	3	2486
6	1	GM	Hou Yifan	2578	CHN	4	0	2	3	2528
7	2	IM	Muzychuk Anna	2562	SLO	4	0	1	3	2519
8	13	IM	Dembo Yelena	2468	GRE	3½	0	2	4	2510
9	11	GM	Cramling Pia	2495	SWE	3½	0	1	4	2535
10	5	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2531	BUL	3½	0	1	3	2501
11	15	IM	Paehtz Elisabeth	2457	GER	3	0	2	4	2529
12	12	GM	Socko Monika	2479	POL	3	0	2	3	2524
13	9	GM	Cmilyte Viktorija	2503	LTU	2½	0	2	4	2513
14	14	IM	Skripchenko Almira	2468	FRA	2	1	2	4	2524
15	8	IM	Zatonskih Anna	2506	USA	2	0	1	4	2498
16	10	GM	Danielian Elina	2497	ARM	1½	0	0	3	2522

 

I’m quite happy after getting my Gold medal!

 

Gold: Alexandra Kosteniuk, Silver: Kateryna Lahno, Bronze: Nana Dzagnidze

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