PLAYING FOR MATE CAN BE ALL RELATIVE
By ANDY SOLTIS
May 6, 2007 — CHESS PARTICIPANTS in international tournaments like to say they’re all members of one extended family, a brotherhood of masters. These days the family may also include a competitor whose is a spouse, sister, mother or daughter.
That was the case at the 8th European Championship in Dresden, Germany, which ended last month and seemed like a purely family affair.
For example, International Master Cristina Foisor of Rumania competed along with her 17-year-old daughter, Sabina, a women’s IM, and her other daughter Mihaela, a talented 13-year-old.
But more attention was paid to Tatiana Kosintseva, 21, of Arkhangesk, Russia, who led through the early rounds of the women’s championship. Her chief rival was her sister Nadezhda, 22, who also holds the women’s GM title.
The Konsintsevs have been playing chess for 15 years and steadily improving. They’re no threat to the legendary Polgar sisters – yet.
The rest of the article can be read at the New York Post website.
There will never be another Polgar sisters 🙂