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Chessville
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Reviewed August 25,2002
So begins one of the many poems written by Alexandra Kosteniuk, International Woman Grandmaster (WGM - 1998), an International Master among men (IM - 2000) and Women's Vice World Champion (2001). Chessplayer, poet, model, author. Oh, did I mention that she's just 18 years old, and has her own web site? This is her official website, and is organized along familiar lines - a series of links along the left side of the page mirror those near the top of the page, underneath an advertising banner. Major sections include: About Alexandra, Photo Album (!), Shop, Learn Online, Chess Calendar, Fan Club, poems, best games, guestbook, forum, chat, and contact info. The site has a number of interesting features (you must visit the photo album) including pages from her book, How I Became A Grandmaster At Age 14. They post another page each week. There is information about taking lessons from Alexandra at the Internet Chess Club ($25/hour), and a selection of chess postcards & software, and her book, of course. The seemingly obligatory links collection is fairly small, and could be improved by the addition of Chessville! Although parts of the site (like the forum for example) are still rather sparse, other parts (see the photo album) have a fair amount of both quantity & quality. I tend to see this site as a work in progress, just like it's subject. The de facto webmaster, Diego Garces, seems very open to suggestions for improvement, and I look forward to revisiting Kosteniuk's site. The site does offer coverage of her current chess events though, with links to home pages of tourney's she participates in. The Best Games page could be improved by the addition of a means to play through the games presented, but they can fairly easily be pasted into whatever pgn viewer you use. Some annotations to these games would be nice too. I leave you with one of the games she's posted: Kosteniuk Alexandra (RUS) - Nikolaidis Konstantinos (GRE), Ikaria (Greece), It (Open), 1998: 1.e4 c5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 e6 6.Nge2 Nge7 7.d3 d6 8.O-O O-O 9.Rb1 Rb8 10.Be3 Nd4 11.b4 b6 12.f4 Bd7 13.Qd2 Qc7 14.Rfc1 Rfc8 15.Qe1 e5 16.Bd2 a6 17.Nd4 ed 18.Nd5 Nd5 19.cd Bb5 20.Bf1 Qd7 21.Qe2 Re8 22.Qf3 Rbc8 23.g4 Qe7 24.g5 f6 25.Bh3 Rc7 26.Be6 Kh8 27.h4 Rf8 28.f5 Bd7 29.Rf1 c4 30.gf Bf6 31.Bh6 Re8 32.fg Be6 33.Qf6 Qf6 34.Rf6 hg 35.de cd 36.Rd1 Rc3 37.Rf8 Rf8 38.Bf8 Kg8 39.Bd6 Ra3 40.e7 [1:0]
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