Top 5 active women players in the world
1 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2727
2 Koneru, Humpy g IND 2567 (my pick)
3 Cramling, Pia g SWE 2530
4 Zhu, Chen g QAT 2518
5 Xu, Yuhua wg CHN 2517
Inactive:
Polgar, Susan g USA 2577
Xie, Jun g CHN 2573
Up and coming stars:
8 Hou, Yifan wf CHN 2509 (my pick)
9 Kosintseva, Nadezhda m RUS 2496 (Kasparov’s pick)
12 Sebag, Marie m FRA 2477
13 Muzychuk, Anna wg SLO 2475 (my pick)
14 Kosintseva, Tatiana m RUS 2474 (Kasparov’s pick)
20 Zhao, Xue wg CHN 2463
26 Lahno, Kateryna m UKR 2456 (Kasparov’s pick)
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Yifan Hou, Nadezhda Kosintseva and her sister Tatiana all 3 played at Corus 2007.
B-Group (avg 2600, 13 rounds):
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13. T. Kosintseva 4
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C-group:(avg. 2486, 13 rounds)
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5. Hou Yifan 7
10. N. Kosintseva 5½
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Yifan had the best result of the three. She is about 10 years yoonger then the sisters Kosintseva !
what hjappened to Alexazndra Kosteniuk? has she retired from
the chess board??
i thought she was the second most talented player after the polgar sisters?
does anybody know?
Kosteniuk? Talented? Are you serious? She’s not even the most talented out of Russia. She’s married and no more chess. She’s living the good life.
Alexandra Kosteniuk is sixth on the January 2007 FIDE women’s list, at 2515. She dropped 19 points after going 3/9 in the Russian Championship.
“Kosteniuk…” “..She’s married..”
Groan! You just crushed my heart! ;))
Isn’t Kosteniuk’s husband 60 something years old? And she’s is in her early 20’s? It must be love!
Hey I am 60.
I will take a little of that Love.
LOL.
Dagne Ciuksyte is the Best :-)2450, but going 2550.
I have a hard time believing Susan is 2500+ and her sister is 2700+ (sorry, I don’t remember the actual numbers from the main page).
My older brother can still toss me around if he wanted to (not talking about chess), so are you telling me Judit can beat Susan any day of the week? Or is Susan’s rating that low because she’s retired (and raising two boys and saving the chess world and USCF)?
In a championship match would Judit crush Susan, or would it be close??
According to the database, Susan is something like +8 against Judit and she never lost to Judit in classical time control, even when both were #1 and #2 in the world.
Susan is way underrated IMHO.
Hou, Yifan wf CHN 2509
is definitely going to improve. She is exciting player for her age. She gets a lot of excitement on ICC talking about her winning. However, it is still early at ICC. But she is gaining fans. Everyone seems to be on her side.
A match between Judit and Susan is an interesting idea. I never thought about it. I would have to guess that Judit should win the match but I get the feeling that Susan is much better than her rating implies. Not everything in chess is about ratings.
I remember what my mother used to always say. She said that she loved all her 5 children equally. I like to think that I admire all three Polgar sister equally. I like to think of all 3 of them as equally wonderful chess players. I have never thought of one of them as “better” than the other.
I don’t think a match between Judit and Susan is a good idea.
It is the same as in tennis with the Williams sisters. It never works out, they feel sorry for each other or something like that, their matches were disappointing.
Susan:
You, Judit and Sofia are my picks.
Why did you skip players 10 and 11 on the FIDE list?