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Alexandra Kosteniuk won convincingly the Golden Blitz tournament in Moscow, by defeating in the semi-finals ex-world champion Zhu Chen 2-0 and in the finals Almira Skripchenko 2-0. In the men's competition Ponomariov beat Bareev in the finals.
The event saw two very strong knockout blitz tournaments, a men's event with 8 players, and a women's event with 4 participants. The following chess stars took part: A.Grischuk, E.Bareev, A.Motylev, P.Tregubov (all – Russia), N.Short (UK), R.Ponomariov (Ukraine), V.Tkachiev (France), Y.Pelletier (Switzerland), and among the women were A.Kosteniuk (Russia), Zhu Chen (China), A Skripchenko (France), I.Krush (USA).
The matches consisted of two five-minutes blitzes. In case of an even score there would have been an additional drawing procedure to decide the colors for the tie-break game, with 4 minutes given to White and 3 minutes given to Black. In case of a draw Black goes to the next round. Here are a few more pictures from the event:
The big winners
of the Golden Blitz: Ruslan Ponomariov and Alexandra Kosteniuk. You can find more news of the event on the following pages: http://www.kosteniuk.com/ and the official announcement: http://www.chess-players.org/eng/news/viewarticle.html?id=426 and in Russian here: http://vvprofi.ru/news.php A complete photo
album of the event is here:
http://www.kosteniuk.com/albums/goldenblitz/goldenblitz05.html All photos and text by Pufichek, (c) www.kosteniuk.com You can purchase any autographed photo ($6
photo 10x15 cm, $36 photo 20x30 cm) from this or practically any album, by
visiting her shop!.
You can mention what you'd like Alexandra to sign on the photo (reasonable
requests please) by sending an email to
to her. Please allow time
for individual printing/signing/shipping. You can also buy a
high-resolution (more than 1 MB) picture by email for $9. Please don't
forget to mention exact Album name and Photo Name. Note: 50% of all
profits of autographed photos go to Alexandra's Chess Fund, in which she
helps to promote chess in the world, principally to children. Thanks
for your support! Visit Alexandra's personal page right here at Chessville!
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