https://twitter.com/Meyer_Dunker/status ... 3X_B_E3g18
https://www.swisschess.ch/news-112/gm-a ... hweiz.html
Alexandra Kosteniuk transfers to Switzerland
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LawrenceCooper
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Chris Goodall
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Re: Alexandra Kosteniuk transfers to Switzerland
Herren-Grossmeister-Titel? Come on, Switzerland.
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Northumberland webmaster, Jesmond CC something-or-other. Views mine. Definitely below the Goodall Line.
Northumberland webmaster, Jesmond CC something-or-other. Views mine. Definitely below the Goodall Line.
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Tim Harding
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Re: Alexandra Kosteniuk transfers to Switzerland
Indeed, wasn't Switzerland about the last western nation to grant women the vote?
(1971 federal, 1990 in the last canton according to Wikipedia)
Tim Harding
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Historian and FIDE Arbiter
Author of 'Steinitz in London,' British Chess Literature to 1914', 'Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography', and 'Eminent Victorian Chess Players'
http://www.chessmail.com
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A.Kluckova
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Re: Alexandra Kosteniuk transfers to Switzerland
Wiki speaks much more :
- In 2013, A.Kosteniuk became the first woman to win the men’s (i.e. universal) Swiss Chess Championship.[15] She also won the women Swiss champion title.
- A.Kosteniuk has dual Swiss-Russian citizenship.[15] She married Swiss-born Diego Garces, who is of Colombian descent,[34] at eighteen years old. On 22 April 2007 she gave birth to a daughter, Francesca Maria. In 2015, A.Kosteniuk married Russian Grandmaster Pavel Tregubov.[36]
So she has really close connection with Switzerland. She has even Swiss citizenship, so everything is OK. What's brave about that, as S.Bayat writes? It is a legal administrative act.
In many European countries you can not play for National Team without citizenship. ( I don't know how SUI).
In my home country SVK - you must to have SVK citizenship if play for National Team in any sport , including chess. It is Government low.
GM S. Movsesian left Armenia when teenager to Czechoslovakia, than he played for CZE, after that he played 8 years for SVK , because he got SVK citizenship. After that in 2010 he changed federation back for Armenian one. (Armenian chess federation payed to Slovakian Chess Federation 30 000 eur for this transfer ). No problem.
- In 2013, A.Kosteniuk became the first woman to win the men’s (i.e. universal) Swiss Chess Championship.[15] She also won the women Swiss champion title.
- A.Kosteniuk has dual Swiss-Russian citizenship.[15] She married Swiss-born Diego Garces, who is of Colombian descent,[34] at eighteen years old. On 22 April 2007 she gave birth to a daughter, Francesca Maria. In 2015, A.Kosteniuk married Russian Grandmaster Pavel Tregubov.[36]
So she has really close connection with Switzerland. She has even Swiss citizenship, so everything is OK. What's brave about that, as S.Bayat writes? It is a legal administrative act.
In many European countries you can not play for National Team without citizenship. ( I don't know how SUI).
In my home country SVK - you must to have SVK citizenship if play for National Team in any sport , including chess. It is Government low.
GM S. Movsesian left Armenia when teenager to Czechoslovakia, than he played for CZE, after that he played 8 years for SVK , because he got SVK citizenship. After that in 2010 he changed federation back for Armenian one. (Armenian chess federation payed to Slovakian Chess Federation 30 000 eur for this transfer ). No problem.
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Mark Howitt
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Re: Alexandra Kosteniuk transfers to Switzerland
I thiak that's HELLA COOL
GM Kosteniuk has a permanent link on my site...
Why?
Because she gave me a FREE DVD...
Even flirted with me a bit
Surreal world...
GM Kosteniuk has a permanent link on my site...
Why?
Because she gave me a FREE DVD...
Even flirted with me a bit
Surreal world...
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Joey Stewart
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Re: Alexandra Kosteniuk transfers to Switzerland
It's good to hear, I've been a big fan of Alexandra for years and its nice to see her distancing herself from Russia.
I think she might have been the first ever female YouTuber, her videos are still fun to watch now especially in her mesmerising voice, and she really deserves to be a LOT more famous then she is.
I think she might have been the first ever female YouTuber, her videos are still fun to watch now especially in her mesmerising voice, and she really deserves to be a LOT more famous then she is.
Lose one queen and it is a disaster, Lose 1000 queens and it is just a statistic.