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Kosteniuk, Diary of a Chess Queen
Fashion model, wife and mother, Alxandra Kostneiuk became the European Women's Chess Champion in 2004 and the Russian Women's Chess Champion in 2005, then prevailed in the final match for the Women'S World Championship in 2008
Women's World Chess Champion alexandra Kosteniuk chronicles her rise to the top of the chess world in this introspective autobiographical work. Drawing fromk personal diaries kept during her youth. kosteniuk takes the reader from the very dwan of her career as a child star in Russia, through triumph and disappointment and finally to the pinnacle of success on the black-and-white battlefield. Along the way, we are treated to much more than an inside look into how a grnadmaster approaches the royal game: we also learn the unique challenges posed to a young woman pulled at once by the diverging demands of professional chess, the glamour of the modelling lifestyle, and the joys of love and familiy life.
Part memoir and travelogue, part game collection, Diary of a Chess Queen features a selection of 64 annotated games with a wide range of world-chess competitors, including super-GM Sergey Karjakin and former women's world champions Zhu CHes and Antoaneta Stefanova.
244 S., kart., 2009
Women's World Chess Champion alexandra Kosteniuk chronicles her rise to the top of the chess world in this introspective autobiographical work. Drawing fromk personal diaries kept during her youth. kosteniuk takes the reader from the very dwan of her career as a child star in Russia, through triumph and disappointment and finally to the pinnacle of success on the black-and-white battlefield. Along the way, we are treated to much more than an inside look into how a grnadmaster approaches the royal game: we also learn the unique challenges posed to a young woman pulled at once by the diverging demands of professional chess, the glamour of the modelling lifestyle, and the joys of love and familiy life.
Part memoir and travelogue, part game collection, Diary of a Chess Queen features a selection of 64 annotated games with a wide range of world-chess competitors, including super-GM Sergey Karjakin and former women's world champions Zhu CHes and Antoaneta Stefanova.
244 S., kart., 2009
Contenss
Chapter 1. Those Wonderful Childhood Years
Chapter 2. Elista - The City of Chess
Chapter 3. Scholl Days
Chapter 4. Kremlin Breakthrough
Chapter 5. After the Applause Died Down
Chapter 6. The Conquest of Europe
Chapter 7. Russian Gold
Chapter 8. Career and Family
Chapter 9. Return
Chapter 10. Nalchik - The Ascent of Olympus
Chapter 11. Being World Champion
Main tournament and match record
List of Opponents
List of Openings