Irina won the Semifinal Women’s World Chess Blitz Championship 2010 by 2 full points with the score of 12.5 / 14! Unfortunately, not too many websites even bother to cover this event so far. I hope that the coverage will pick up soon. Top 20 finishers: Place SNo. Title Name Fed. FIDE Total MBch. Bch. […]
2010 Women’s World Blitz Championship
Reigning Champion: Susan Polgar 1 Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2524 confirmed 2 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2593 confirmed 3 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2551 confirmed 4 Kosintseva, Nadezhda g RUS 2565 confirmed 5 Kosintseva, Tatiana g RUS 2573 confirmed 6 Muzychuk, Anna m SLO 2535 confirmed 7 Winner of the semifinal 1 8 Winner of […]
Aiming for a world title
Humpy gears up for Blitz chessSeptember 11th, 2010DC Correspondent Hyderabad, Sept. 10: World No.2 and India’s top rated Woman Grandmaster Koneru Humpy is ready with the gambit as she makes her maiden attempt at the Women’s World Blitz Chess Championship to be held in Moscow on September 17 and 18. Humpy, who qualified by virtue […]
Another picture from 1992
These were some of the participants of the 1992 Women’s World Blitz Championship. It was a brutal 27 player round robin tournament. Judit came in 2nd and Galliamova came in 3rd. I just found these 2 pictures at my father’s home. It is like a chess museum 🙂 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar