Anand - Kosteniuk, World Blitz Championship 2009, Moscow, 17 November 2009

Anand loses this blitz game to Alexandra Kosteniuk!

[@orbsandtea]

Wow! Kosteniuk, despite her rating, is one to never underestimate! What a tremendous feat by Alexandra!

[@CristianoSperansa]

Every time i see that game i think, how does she can be so good?? love you kosteniuk '-'

[@gatobuiles]

Anad no termino de jugar la partida debido a que es un jugador de ajedrez en todo el sentido de la palabra; puesto que hubiese podido haber presionado a la jugadora Kosteniuk por tiempo a pesar del incremento, pero sus buenos valores lo llevo a ceder de buena forma.

[@oxiigen]

Aaaah, this was sweet! Bravo Alexandra!!

[@SoccerNumber10]

true i noticed it too, anand is such a gentlement..! She is a great champion too, but anand didn't killed the bishop and ended her attacks!

[@evilbyte]

Thank you once again.

[@KortusLombardie]

I completely agree with you, she even put a video against carlsen, where she wins because carlsen got disqualified (touched a piece and then he changed his mind). I personally think that is not "a win". PD. I do think reviewing lost games is actually more helpful than reviewing won games

[@Ruxistico]

Alexandra has written numerous books on chess that you can read. Also she has made dvd's and commented games on youtube.

[@GiorgeiX]

Thanks for the video!

[@Moremover]

@ChessQueen Dear Alexandra , to understand what I said please go to wikipedia in english and give in my name : LUTZ NEWEKLOWSKY Here you can find under the title "BEAUTY IN CHESSPROBLEMS" my worldrecord mate of the year 2001 , which humans can´t understand and VISWANATHAN ANAND said : "The best player in future will be the person who will be the best in learning and sometimes in understanding what computers teach to us." Nowadays the computers CORRECT the openings of the human chesstheory.

[@RK831]

I want to see Sasha play Vishy in a standard game of chess, where they can both take more time to think. Let them play the best of six series.

[@msn140]

Alexandra Kosteniuk she is my favorite chess player !!! she beat many times the best in blitz games

[@Nikolay10000]

Мистика! Ананда сделали как мальчика в парке на скамеечке:))

[@GiorgeiX]

Just to let people copy-and-paste them into programs that replay and analyse the match with easiness.

[@rahulkanchangaikwad]

anand games bores me to death....

[@rackzor]

That was the shortest applaud i have ever seen/heard >_

[@mwangikimani3970]

The Russians used to rig games... but Fischer can't use that excuse for refusing to play Karpov. In this case he was scared of losing.

[@Ruxistico]

ah, nice little tactic :). I don't think it's THAT amazing that they both missed it though. I think what happened was: Anand blundered (horribly). Kosteniuk on her part recognizes that she is playing the world champion and therefore trusts his calculation, concentrating on avoiding threats, not prioritizing the attacking possibilities enough and therefore misses a fairly obvious mating attack. This happens to all of us when we are defending a worse position or playing some1 higher rated.

[@daveyork0]

Dude this is youtube which was made for people to upload clips of themselves landing 720s on their skateboards. The ones they miss they can leave in the garage. Girl shows some great "720s" on a board without wheels.

[@GiorgeiX]

@zachattack661 You are right, but the excitement was probably the main character of the game. Nice question to be asked to Alexandra...

[@RayVitoles]

Seems like that Kosteniuk has a forte in blitz,i think that blitz is also a type of game that has its meaning(very good for training) but it is not accurate to show the player's true power..I think the lowest time to consider a player's power is a fast rapid game(25 min)

[@PMilet]

Actually, the game is played '3+2', ie, you are supposed to get 2 seconds increment per move. That's usual for most top-level blitz games.

[@mautand]

@yapanuwan Yes it is, because Bobby Fischer's IQ, who was world chess champion, was detected 180. 180 IQ is above normal level.

[@capachip]

Its amazing what these great players miss when they play blitz. At 6.54 Kosteniuk would have won straight away with Kt b3 check.

[@allahkikuss]

Yes I agree with you.. This game when I saw it, so i was surprised by this game the way Anand was playing. From a world chess champion, at least I can't believe he could play a kiddish game. In the begining Anand captured Knight and was a piece ahead. It is not a shame that he lost to a woman but a shame that he played a very bad game. mostly players give up points to others, that is why Bobby fisher argued about this and quit playing chess because of unfair in tournaments.

[@bumblebee1607]

I think it is only natural that everyone, including Sasha, wants to comment on their achievements rather than losses. Otherwise would be quite a maso exercise, don't you think?:)

[@balleslyng]

why have you written all the moves? that must have taken ages...

[@Brulserz]

she tore him apart.

[@RoelGeurtsen]

@jbat100 She may indeed prefer to show her winning games, which is only logical! but she does comment on her defeats aswell!

[@davidcarlsen8799]

Who's watching this in 2021?

[@s0ulofblood]

@bumblebee1607 Not true, one of my favorite chess players, Josh Waitzkin, commentates on many of his losses, because he feels he learned more from them even though he enjoyed winning very much.

[@mautand]

when an unacceptable events become true, so people starts to sense many complexes. I think this is the same matter with you.

[@mautand]

@jbat100 Thank you jbat for explaining the meaning of troll. However, I didn't intend to post blogs just to provoke readers or to play with their emotional behaviour. I said what I saw the difference between man and woman in the late 20th and in the current century.

[@balleslyng]

i would have been so bummed by that glare on the board. draw the drapes! please jesus christ!

[@Moremover]

Dear SassyJay2 , you find my worldrecords not only on wikipedia but also also here on youtube under the following word : NEWEKLOWSKY Here you can see the worldrecordprogression from 1889 to 2010 kindly regards from Germany Lutz Neweklowsky

[@AdamoLuisPeru]

Anand tenia al comienzo una pieza por 2 peones, nose ke vio... cuando hizo alfil x f7, complico la partida, pero kosteniuk se defendio bien, e incluso estuvo apurada de tiempo

[@WeatherShine]

He did this on purpose? Like he did in last chapmionatship with Kramnik, when he lose teatraly few matches

[@Karpov-kMe]

Великолепно

[@maschinenmeister]

heavy performance

[@grandaduk]

Replying to '' jbat100's '' comment its true, she never posts games of her losing dispite claiming to. So only ever goes into blitz games, and the ones she has won then she becomes less talented at proper standard games............

[@bashqortmon]

люблю Костенюк

[@Николай_Николаев]

bashqortmon Ну езжай к ней и пригласи на свидание:)

[@Extramark9]

@jbat100 in her defense Carlsen is a BEAST in chess

[@mautand]

@r4f43ll, i am sorry what do you mean by troll detected. would you like to explain?

[@mautand]

By the way, may I ask you, what is your IQ score?

[@theloverpharoah7]

is she lose because the time

[@slymnlts]

Anand lost... There is no way of surviving the checkmate in two moves.

[@yapanuwan]

What if Anand plays b3 ?

[@TheSLK66]

I don't believe he lost on purpose. When playing chess you have to play with all your might as a sign of respect for the other player. Unless Anad holds no respect for her he would have lost on purpose. All chess players will agree that you most hold enough respect for each other when playing.

[@246trinitrotoluene]

wow.. anand lost?

[@cartoonesque]

I have no idea.

[@WeatherShine]

Diego Garces love her much better. She born him daugther.

[@comosera]

Very nice but, Kosteniuk could be a little more polite and thank the applause? not just leave...

[@PMilet]

Well it's blitz; but the whole Qb3 & Bf7 maneuver just didn't "smell" good ;)

[@123UncleRuckus]

You are thinking of Marilyn vos Savant, who was measured with a child's IQ rating, as opposed to Abdellesam Jelloul who was measured with a proper adult IQ test (one that tests all facets of intelligence). Marilyn vos Savant actually has a adult IQ test score of 185, which is lower than that of certain males. Your argument has still not been proven, as you have simply pointed out an anomaly.

[@mautand]

@yapanuwan do you want to set a chess match of only 2 minutes with 0 increment time? I will tell u what is my IQ level.

[@ElysianFields01]

Great men can only come from women!

[@mwangikimani3970]

I don't believe Vishy was playing to beat her... I'm not saying this because she is a woman but its obvious he let her win.

[@mautand]

if you put that in google search bar, so you will be able to get to the site.... The other thing is that do you know who is recorded the highest IQ level in human kind? There was a lady, I dont remember her name, with 208 IQ level. Whereas, Bobby Fisher's IQ was around 180. Good luck.

[@cartoonesque]

Actually William Sidis had an IQ of nearly 300, then a long list of men come ahead of whoever you're talking about. Better luck next time.

[@halfassedfart]

@SchradMaster She's a woman, she's lighter. :P

[@Al0Intifada]

Anand forgot the clock, haha.

[@nicolasskettos]

he got demoished a rook and a knight down, are you blind?

[@crioleso]

W Kosty

[@Spudst3r]

If she was a man you would have never made this observation about always pointing out winning games!

[@SRDTL]

@jbat100 Exactly

[@JCarAlvi]

She has a knight and one rook more so Anand knew it was pointless try to win

[@surgautam169]

I m a rated player i don agree to this game

[@Ruxistico]

womens world champion beats men's world champion.

[@germanoscarpalominocaballe7712]

Kosteniuk le gano a Anand

[@KRISYSable]

i feel very bad talking whit Q.I. < 70. I'M sorry for you. bye bye.

[@Al0Intifada]

Anand didn't lose it was a draw.

[@rahulkanchangaikwad]

it's a win ...check this out....www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1564212 confirm before commenting....thank you

[@rahulkanchangaikwad]

lol

[@jonascampos5564]

Of course he lose, she has the column to check mate the king or at least win the his queen

[@123UncleRuckus]

While I applaud your switch to athiesm, your premise is still unsupported. You need to back up your assertions with empirical data. Until you do that, I cannot take you seriously.

[@r4f43ll]

@mautand troll detected

[@123UncleRuckus]

Is that an inferiority complex I sense?

[@mautand]

continued, Thus, in olden days, if women would have been given the same authority so who know what would have happened. I understand if you are male, so it is not acceptable for you the superiority of woman over man, because of the same old mentality and irrational fear of woman leading in the field of man's life which makes you sick. I was too thinking the same like you. But later on I found out this is truth and truth always has to be accepted. You know what, I was muslim but now i am atheist.

[@DiminishedStudios]

Nope...just funny

[@shaioliver]

@jbat100 lol women

[@KanoneUnteralle]

women < men