http://chessmovies.com chessmovies.com the best source for chess movies http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=154 A great music video by Dulok Shaman about chess.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=152 This is the blitz game where Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk beats Judith Polgar from the World Blitz Championship in Moscow 2009. The endgame is particularly fascinating and instructive, especially the move 63.g4!! played with seconds on the clock.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=151 A 30 seconds web ad for Alexandra Kosteniuk's new book "Diary of a Chess Queen", to be published on December 1, 2009, on sale on www.chessqueen.com. Free autograph when ordered before publication date.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=150 Women's world chess champion Alexandra Kosteniuk manages to beat seasoned male Grandmaster Alexey Korotylev in 19 moves, with the black pieces. 5- minute blitz game played at the 2009 Moscow Blitz Championship.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=149 Women's World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk gives a 28 minute chess lesson to the kids from the Mighty Pawns Chess Club. Filmed in Nashville in 2008.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=148 Recently crowned Women's World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk explains why chess is a good game to be taught to chidren. In Russian.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=147 Sophie Milliet and Alexandra Kosteniuk comment the last game played at the "Match des Championnes" in Corsica, 2009, and answer questions by Léo Battesti. Alexandra just won the game in only 18 moves, playing black in a Scandinavian Defense. Video provided by Mr. Maurice.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=146 A 3-minute clip from French TV FR3 in May 2009 right after World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk beat French Champion Sophie Milliet 2 - 0 in their two-game rapid match, called "Le Match des Championnes", which took place in Porto-Vecchio, Corsica (called Corse in French).
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=145 A clip from Canal 9 TV about Women's World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk's visit to Martigny, Valais, Switzerland on April 25, 2009 for a 30-board simul. Alexandra scored 27 wins, 2 draws, and 1 loss against Gérald Darbellay.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=144 Chessqueen and current Women's World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk gave an interview to Macauley Peterson in April 2009 right after finishing her 57-board chess simul at the Supernationals in Nashville, Tennessee. She achieved the superb result of 54 wins and only 3 draws.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=143 An interview of Pierre Meylan at a chess tournament in Geneva (Switzerland) about the qualification system for youth players. Video by Robert Fontaine, copyright Europe-Echecs.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=142 A 25 minute NTV national TV program about New Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk. Alexandra and her family are featured in Oxana Pushkina's program. In Russian. Aired in February 2009.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=141 Chessqueen™ and Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk was featured on national CBS TV on February 1, 2009. To watch this movie you need Quicktime, if you don't have it, you can watch the same movie on our sister site www.tubechess.com .
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=140 Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk was on National Fox TV in the popular program "Sunday Sports Xtra". A smaller flash version of this clip is available on the www.tubechess.com site.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=139 The story about how Alexandra Kosteniuk became the 12th Women World Champion in the history of chess. Takes place in September 2008 in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=138 Women's chess world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk comments her third game of the Final of the Blitz Competition at the 1st Mind Sports Games in Beijing, China. Grandmasters Alexandra Kosteniuk and Antoaneta Stefanova are playing in the Final and fighting for the Gold. The Final is in 2 Games + tie-break. Alexandra lost the first game and won the third so this is the last game that will decide the Gold.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=137 Women's chess world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk comments her second game of the Final of the Blitz Competition at the 1st Mind Sports Games in Beijing, China. Grandmasters Alexandra Kosteniuk and Antoaneta Stefanova are playing in the Final and fighting for the Gold. The Final is in 2 Games + tie-break. Alexandra lost the first game and so she needs to win to stay in the race for the Gold.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=136 Women's chess world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk comments her first game of the Final of the Blitz Competition at the 1st Mind Sports Games in Beijing, China. Grandmasters Alexandra Kosteniuk and Antoaneta Stefanova are playing in the Final and fighting for the Gold. The Final is in 2 Games + tie-break.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=135 A 2-minute Introduction of recently crowned Women's world chess champion Alexandra Kosteniuk.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=134 A news clip from the Russian 1st TV channel about the 2008 Beijing Mind Sport Games, filmed right after the Russian women's team won Gold in the chess blitz event. Team leader is World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk (who a few days earlier won also Gold in the blitz individual event), Natalia Pogonina, Valentina Gunina and Irina Vasilevich.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=133 This is the weekly sports news TV program on Russian sports TV with commentator Dmitry Guberniev. He interviews freshly crowned Women World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk, after her return from Nalchik, where she beat China's Hou Yifan in the final of the World Chess Championship.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=132 A 1 minute clip from Russian NTV news after Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk became Women World Chess Champion in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, on September 17, 2008 (Russian)
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=131 A 4:15 minute clip from Russian TV news Vesti sport just after Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk drew her fourth game against Hou Yifan at the Women World Chess Championship in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, on September 17, 2008 and became Women World Chess Champion (Russian).
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=130 A 2:30 minute clip from Russian TV news Vesti sport just after Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk drew her third game against Hou Yifan at the Women World Chess Championship in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, on September 16, 2008.
]]> http://www.chessmovies.com/index.php?id=129 This TV program from the Channel Russia Today was recorded just a week after Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk became the 12th women world champion in history.
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