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Monday, September 7, 2009

Ural Trip Trivia Contest


(The Trivia Contest question is at the bottom of this post)

Hello everybody!

From September 2 to September 6 I visited my grandparents. They live in the Ural town of Kamensk-Uralsky.

As almost in any town in Russia there is a chess club where kids can learn and play chess. I met the 12 strongest youngsters of Kamensk-Ural'sky in a simul. They fought very hard and could make one draw.



On September 5, 2009 I had a chance to visit the Ural Chess Academy in Ekaterinburg. On the photo below you can see me together with the director of this Academy GM Naum Rashkovsky on the left and Andrey Salov assistant of minister in PC and Sport in the Sverdlovsk Region on the right. Note the picture which is behind us and try to name all the persons on it.

In Ekaterinburg I gave a press-conference which you can read here, in Russian where I spoke about my future plans as well as about my recently published book in Russian "Дневники шахматной королевы" ("Diaries of a chess queen"). And of course I gave a simultaneous exhibition on 10 boards which I won with the score +9=0-1. A few more photos of this event can be found here (7 last photos).

And at the end a little trivia. What is the name of the kind of berries my daughter and I are picking on the photo below?

The first one to send the correct answer will get my DVD "How I became the 12th Women World Chess Champion".

Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk
Women's World Chess Champion
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5 comments:

  1. UnknownSeptember 7, 2009 at 2:01 AM

    You became the 12th Women World Chess Champion by beating Hou Yifan in the finals at 2008 =)

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  2. UnknownSeptember 7, 2009 at 2:03 AM

    ... and I realised that was not the trivia :)
    Is that a firethorn?

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  3. Alexandra KosteniukSeptember 7, 2009 at 4:58 AM

    STOP! I posted this trivia contest on my facebook oage http://www.facebook.com/chessqueen and on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/chessqueen , and within 2 hours more than 100 answers. We have a Trivia Contest winner, lots of correct answers in the last minutes, let me check who was first.

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  4. Alexandra KosteniukSeptember 7, 2009 at 5:00 AM

    The correct name of the berry is sea-buckthorn ( wiki http://bit.ly/14LmBE ) or in Russian облепиха ( http://bit.ly/2IHvR ).

    Several correct answers, but the first is... Dom Guerin, congratulations!!! A gift in the mail to him very soon!

    Sorry for the people who also answered correctly by after Dom. Dwight answered right but 1 minute 7 seconds later.

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  5. OilIsMasterySeptember 7, 2009 at 9:46 AM

    Who are the people with Putin and Medvedev?

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