Exhausted after World Blitz Chess Championship
I'm sorry for not updating my blog for a few days. Now I'm back since the World Blitz Chess Championship that took place on November 16-18, 2009 in Moscow has come to its end.
Magnus Carlsen won this event with a fantastic result - 31 out of 42! That's 3 points ahead of Viswanathan Anand who took the silver medal of the championship!
In the last 4 days I played 59 blitz-games! Since just before the world blitz championship, on November 15, I took part in another strong GM's tournament in Moscow. So I had a very long blitz marathon.
I did have some spectacular wins over very strong GM, for example two days ago I beat the world #1 rated Magnus Carlsen (who later went on to win the tournament). I am especially happy about yesterday's (17th of November) where out of 14 blitz games in the super strong world blitz championship I took 7 out of 14, beating Grandmasters Anand (who is the current Men's World Champion, Aronian, Judith Polgar, Tkachiev, Grischuk and Morozevich! In total I scored a respectable 12.5 points, which corresponds to 10 wins and 5 draws, against players on average 200 ELO points above me. It was a great experience, and I am so happy to have been able to play and beat such world renowned players. I will soon prepare for you some of my best games with comments and some in video.
Already tomorrow I will be flying to Khanty-Mansiisk where I will take place in the World Cup and will face in the first round GM Shakhriar Mamedyarov. But I can promise you that as soon as I have time I will tell you in details about the World Blitz Championship as well as about many interesting events that took place while I was away from blogging.
Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk
Women's World Chess Champion
Labels: anand, Magnus Carlsen, World Blitz Chess Championship
posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk @ 2:48 PM
5 Comments:
At November 19, 2009 at 6:16 AM ,
Anonymous said...
Hello from Norway. So Carlsen won, Yippee! But I am glad you beat him once. It is not good for him to win all of the time. Besides, you are my favourite chess player ;-).
Love from Paal.
At November 19, 2009 at 7:32 AM ,
иренеяс Литва said...
Мы очень ждём Ваших комментарии! Удачи!!!
At November 20, 2009 at 3:34 PM ,
Anonymous said...
Hello from France.
Congratulations Alexandra.
You have a very interesting chess blog, with a lot of various news.
And your performances in the last tournaments are impressive. Who is still not on your scoring board ?
Go on Alexandra, and you'll be the next Judith Polgar. Excuse me, but Judith remains my favourite woman chess player ! I am 50 years old, and it can explain that...
Bises from François... and good luck for the World Cup.
At November 23, 2009 at 7:01 AM ,
Lauri said...
Yeah. I think you performed superbly. You performed +62 in relation to your current rating!
At November 24, 2009 at 12:56 AM ,
Anonymous said...
You did very well, I can't deny that, but you have a mistake in your post:
beating Grandmasters Anand (who is the current Men's World Champion)
There is not such a thing as Men's World Champion! He's the "World Champion", just that, as Men and Women can play for the title!
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home