16 September 2009

Kosteniuk to play in World Blitz Chess Championship 2009 in Moscow


The blitz chess world championship will take place on November 16 – 18, 2009 right in the heart of Moscow in the GUM department store (Kremlin Square, 3).

As the Russian Chess Federation announced today, the participants of this event will be:

1. Vishwanathan Anand
2. Vladimir Kramnik
3. Levon Aronian
4. Magnus Carlsen
5. Peter Leko
6. Vassily Ivanchuk
7. Boris Gelfand
8. Alexander Morozevich
9. Peter Svidler
10. Ruslan Ponomariov

these 10 players will also take part in the Tal Memorial that will take place from November 5 to November 14, 2009 in Moscow.

In the world blitz chess championship the following personally invited players will also take part:

11. Anatoly Karpov
12. Lenier Dominquez
13. Alexander Grischuk
14. Alexandra Kosteniuk

And the 6 qualified players which are:

15. Sergey Karjakin
16. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
17. Vugar Gashimov
18. Evegny Bareev
19. Vladislav Tkachev
and
20. Zhou Jianchao

I’m very happy that I will play in such strong tournament and I’m really looking forward to it! It will be by far the strongest chess tournament in which I will have played, and I am preparing for it already now.

If you want to see some of my commented blitz chess videos (I comment the games as they go on), go to my YouTube channel called “Chessqueen” www.youtube.com/chessqueen . The videos are entertaining and very instructive.

Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk
Women’s World Chess Champion