I’m amazed that Kosteniuk took her time during her game to tweet and to update her blog. Tweet items and blog posts magically appear while she’s playing her game. She’s really talented, isn’t she?
She did the same during her games at the recent Russian Women’s Championship in Moscow. All the tweets and posts have her name. This is why she’s the best chess journalist on the planet.
I’m sure FIDE and the Russian Chess Federation will make an exception for her to tweet and blog post during games since she’s the best woman player ever. Anything is possible in Russia.
Coming up next from the anonymous haters: Kosteniuk was behind 9/11! You see, the inaccurate English title of a book brought to the market by a Russian publisher in 2001, when Kosteniuk herself was just 17 (or 16), is incontrovertible proof of her being such a megalomaniac that the Earth itself cringed, and the Twin Towers crumbled, from pure embarrassment on her behalf.
Seriously, though: Get a life! Get over that old book title and the possibility that some blog items posted during the Women’s World Championship may have been written in advance or even ghostwritten. I don’t even know if the time signatures actually prove that such items have been posted during her games (by her webmaster or husband or whomever), but then I am not obsessively searching for stuff to blame her for. More generally speaking, it’s not unheard of for players (e.g. Jon Ludvig Hammer) to be making extensive posts to their blogs during tournaments.
Never mind that Kosteniuk wrote about her fellow WWC participants in a blog post today: “All these women surely are to be proud of.” No amount of evidence to the contrary is going to convince the haters that Kosteniuk’s perceived “arrogance” is just in their heads.
Susan is making a great blog in the spirit of her motto, “Win with grace, lose with dignity”, but you guys are kind of ruining it with all this flaming going on in the comments to every post even tangentially related to Kosteniuk. If you have to spew all this bile, couldn’t you please just register kosteniukisevil.com and do it there instead?
I’m amazed that Kosteniuk took her time during her game to tweet and to update her blog. Tweet items and blog posts magically appear while she’s playing her game. She’s really talented, isn’t she?
She did the same during her games at the recent Russian Women’s Championship in Moscow. All the tweets and posts have her name. This is why she’s the best chess journalist on the planet.
is that even allowed during games? (access to computers??)
27. Bc6, instead of 27. f5?! would have given her the game. She did it now a move later, but too late.
I don’t think it is smart to chat etc during a game on this level.
Her gamne is now drawish.
Erik Fokke
Amsterdam, Netherlands
I’m sure FIDE and the Russian Chess Federation will make an exception for her to tweet and blog post during games since she’s the best woman player ever. Anything is possible in Russia.
Don’t forget that Alexandra Kosteniuk became a GM at 14, even younger than Judit Polgar, according to Kosteniuk herself:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Became-Grandmaster-Age-14/dp/5829300435/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291827869&sr=8-1
If anyone can do it, she can. She’s the best.
She didn’t become a GM at 14. She became a WGM at 14 which is a big difference.
Yifan Hou became a GM at 14.
Are you saying she lied? It’s in print on the cover of her book. Why would she do that?
of course she didn’t become GM at 14……Hou Yifan did that…. and the female record before Hou is not Judit, but Konenu
She became a WGM at 14 and a GM at 20, according to FIDE.
Then why did Kosteniuk have that title for her book? Did she think she can get away with this crap?
Coming up next from the anonymous haters: Kosteniuk was behind 9/11! You see, the inaccurate English title of a book brought to the market by a Russian publisher in 2001, when Kosteniuk herself was just 17 (or 16), is incontrovertible proof of her being such a megalomaniac that the Earth itself cringed, and the Twin Towers crumbled, from pure embarrassment on her behalf.
Seriously, though: Get a life! Get over that old book title and the possibility that some blog items posted during the Women’s World Championship may have been written in advance or even ghostwritten. I don’t even know if the time signatures actually prove that such items have been posted during her games (by her webmaster or husband or whomever), but then I am not obsessively searching for stuff to blame her for. More generally speaking, it’s not unheard of for players (e.g. Jon Ludvig Hammer) to be making extensive posts to their blogs during tournaments.
Never mind that Kosteniuk wrote about her fellow WWC participants in a blog post today: “All these women surely are to be proud of.” No amount of evidence to the contrary is going to convince the haters that Kosteniuk’s perceived “arrogance” is just in their heads.
Susan is making a great blog in the spirit of her motto, “Win with grace, lose with dignity”, but you guys are kind of ruining it with all this flaming going on in the comments to every post even tangentially related to Kosteniuk. If you have to spew all this bile, couldn’t you please just register kosteniukisevil.com and do it there instead?