Congratulations to the major chess tournament winners 2010
Vishy Anand and Alexandra Kostenuik remain the current chess world champions.
Here are featured the current mens blitz champion 2009 Magnus Carlsen, and junior world chess champions 2009 (with some of the games they played):
- Men's World Blitz Chess Champion - M. Carlsen
At only 20 years old Magnus Carlsen tops the FIDE ratings with 2810.
He won the World Blitz Chess Championship in November 2009 and also recently won the London Chess Classic tournament in December 2010.
Anand (IND) vs Carlsen (NOR) World Chess Blitz Championships 2009
(Shown in the viewer below is Game 38 - Queen's Gambit Declined opening ECO D31
pgn viewer jspgnviewer http://pgnview.edicypages.com/)
- Women's World Chess Champion - A. Kosteniuk
Alexandra Kosteniuk (Rus) beat Hou Yifan (Chi) in Nalchik (Sept 2008) to become the Womens Chess World Champion.
She continues to do well recently winning the ACP womens Rapid Cup at the start of December 2009.
However here is shown her semifinal game in Moscow Blitz 2005 vs Zhu Chen and Alexandra went on to win
this title beating Almira Schripchenko in the final.
The moves are on the pgn player and below is a youtube video link
(Shown in the viewer below is Semi Final Game 1 -
The opening is French Defence Winawer ECO )
( NB-The world's no. 1 female player,Judit Polgar,36th in FIDE Top100 rating list at Jan 2008
has never competed for the Women's World Championship and did not play this time)
- Junior World Chess Champions 2009 - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Soumya Swaminathan
The World Junior Chess Championship was held in Puerto Madrin Argentina October 2009 -Junior (u20 Boys) World Chess Champion -
French GM and top seeded Maxime Vachier-Lagrave pipped Sergie Zhigalko on better tie-break score to claim
the world junior boys title.
(Shown in the viewer below is his match versus David Howell of England The opening is the Ruy Lopez Bird variation opening ECO C61 - )
- Girls Junior (u20) World Chess Champion 2008 -Soumya Swaminathan
The 20-year-old woman grandmaster Soumya Swaminathan tallied 10 points in this under-20 tournament. Soumya (Elo 2297) was seeded ninth in the tournament and needed a victory in the last round.
The win gives her to a direct entry to the Women's World Championship
(Shown in the viewer below is her round 13 game -
a Ruy Lopez opening ECO C88 )
Anand (IND) vs Carlsen (NOR) World Chess Blitz Championships 2009
