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World Women Team Chess Championship-09 - tactics challenge
Written by Natalia Pogonina
Saturday, 26 September 2009
Ranking crosstable
Rk.
Team
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
TB1
TB2
1
China One
*
2
1
3½
3½
2½
3
1
3
2
12
21.5
2
Russia
2
*
2
2½
2
2
1½
3
3
3
12
21.0
3
Ukraine
3
2
*
1
2½
2
2½
2
2
3½
12
20.5
4
Georgia
½
1½
3
*
1½
3
3
3
2
2½
11
20.0
5
Armenia
½
2
1½
2½
*
3½
2
½
2½
3½
10
18.5
6
Poland
1½
2
2
1
½
*
3
2½
2½
2½
10
17.5
7
India
1
2½
1½
1
2
1
*
3
2½
3
9
17.5
8
America
3
1
2
1
3½
1½
1
*
1½
2
6
16.5
9
China Two
1
1
2
2
1½
1½
1½
2½
*
3
6
16.0
10
Vietnam
2
1
½
1½
½
1½
1
2
1
*
2
11.0
Source: Chessbase.com
Today I would like to share with you some interesting tactics from the World Women Team Chess Championship. Some of them are relatively easy, some are rather serious ones, and two of them are challenging even for masters. Press "read more" to see the problems:
One of the top chess portals in the world, ChessPro, published a story about my hard-fought victory at the Russian Women Superfinal-2008 (WGM Pogonina - WGM Shadrina), with my own annotations.
You can read the article here (in Russian, with pics!).
Chess videos by Pogonina.com - New channel & Anand's interview
Written by Natalia Pogonina
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
I'm happy to let you know that from now on we will be publishing chess videos - interviews, games, blitz matches, probably even lessons. You can subscribe to my new Pogonina.com Youtube channel to stay up-to-date with some of the most exciting chess videos you can find! If you have any special suggestions or idea - let me know. Cooperation offers are also very much appreciated (feel free to contact me) - let's share great chess content with as many people as we can!
P.S. I have just added an interview with Anand (Mexico, 2007, right after he became world champion) by my chess coach IM Lobach. It's bilingual - English and Russian. Hope you will enjoy it!
Natalia Pogonina - Interview for the "e5!" magazine
Written by Natalia Pogonina
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
I have recently been interviewed Marcel Blanchard for the e5! magazine (Uruguay, in cooperation with the Russian 64 Chess Review magazine).
1-Could you tell us about your city?
I live in Sararov. Its a nice city with a population of about 1 million people, located on the brink of the Volga river, in the European part of Russia.
2-What do you like most about Russia?
Russia is a very large country, each part of it is wonderful, every city is beautiful in its own way. I like the diversity.
3-Have you considered moving to a different country? AndwhataboutMoscow?
Yes. When I was a child, I wanted to relocate to Spain. Ilikethiscountry. Moscowalsolooksappealingtome.
Natalia Pogonina - interview for the TNT news program
Written by Peter Zhdanov
Sunday, 13 September 2009
WGM Natalia Pogonina and Peter Zhdanov, authors of Chess Kama Sutra, talk about the upcoming book, chess, their marriage, and play a friendly blitz game in front of the cameras.
The Hindustantimes has been one of the numerous newspapers that has published an article on Vladislav Tkachiev's forfeit after being heavily drunk and falling asleep at a chess board. A truly grandmaster-level PR move! It's too bad that Toiletgate, drunk GMs & their fights over a pretty female chess player seem to be the only way for chess to make the news.
However, our topic today is different: beauty contests among women chess players. In the screenshot above you can see a mention of one of them, here's another story. Opinions on this subject differ: some people believe that such contests are an excellent way of promoting chess and chess players. Others point out that women should prove their strength and earn popularity over the board, not by posing for glamorous photo shoots. Natalia Pogonina doesn't pay too much attention to such events. She finds them fun, somewhat provocative, but not that important.
And what's your opinion? Does it make sense to hold chess beauty contests? Please leave your comments here, vote in a poll (see left panel), or even ask what your friends think (using the button below).
As a reply to the Dragon Contest, @mwlphelps (at Twitter) forwarded
me a link to a shop selling all sorts of Dragon Variation stuff
We should've published the results of the Dragon Variation Contest a few days ago. Unfortunately, due to technical problems, some of the messages got lost. We tried to restore them using our memory, so excuse us if some inaccuracies occur.
Book review by Natalia Pogonina: "Diary of a Chess Queen" by Alexandra Kosteniuk
Written by Natalia Pogonina
Sunday, 06 September 2009
Dear Natalia, warm regards and love to you and your family!
Alexandra Kosteniuk
An autobiography of a reigning world champion is remarkable all by itself, especially if written sincerely and from the heart. I was very happy to receive a present from Sasha Kosteniuk (see the dedicatory inscription above) her new book Diary of a Chess Queen (available for pre-order already). Traveling along the pages, one can trace the evolution of a small shy girl who sometimes had to play blitz for stakes to earn enough money for her chess trips, into a stylish and feminine chess queen, whose images are frequently seen on billboards and magazines all over the world.
September is a tough period for everyone. We hope that for you its going to be smooth, interesting, and successful. Pogonina.com is also experiencing autumn feelings: we have moved to a new server, thus some technical bugs occur & sometimes the website is down, sorry. However, we have prepared a lot of tasty materials for you (will be published later), as well as functional updates. So, in the nearest future the situation is going to become stabile, and even improve!
