Kosteniuk - Gunina Blitz Chess 2010

12th Women's World Chess Champion and Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk wins this game against Valentina Gunina, at the 2010 Women's World Blitz Championship in Moscow, Russia.
#Women'sWorldBlitzChampionship #AlexandraKosteniuk #chessqueen
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk aka ChessQueen
12th women's world chess champion
FIDE women's world cup winner 2021
Women's World Rapid Chess Champion 2021
Website: kosteniuk.com/en
Twitch - / chessqueen
Instagram - / chessqueen
Twitter - / chessqueen
Telegram - t.me/chessqueena
Discord - / discord
TikTok - / chessqueena
Chess.com - chess.com/?ref_id=10456464
Support Alexandra by upgrading your chess.com account using Alexandra's affiliate link: chess.com/?ref_id=10456464
Alexandra's courses on Chess.com:
ABSOLUTELY MUST KNOW ENDGAMES:
www.chess.com/...
THE LOUD ITALIAN: www.chess.com/...
На русском:
ЧТО НУЖНО ЗНАТЬ ОБ ЭНДШПИЛЕ:
www.chess.com/...
ГРОМКАЯ ИТАЛЬЯНСКАЯ: www.chess.com/...
Support Alexandra: streamlabs.com...
Александра Костенюк
★ Международный гроссмейстер
★ 12-я чемпионка мира по шахматам
★ Победительница Кубка мира ФИДЕ 2021 среди женщин
★ Чемпионка мира среди женщин по быстрым шахматам 2021
Онлайн-школа шахмат Александры Костенюк: azbukachess.ru/
Учебник шахматной игры Александры Костенюк для начинающих: book24.ru/~Ov5JJ
Рабочая тетрадь для начинающих: book24.ru/~EA0aC
Донаты, поддержка канала: www.donational...

[@mjccmc82]

I really enjoy watching these games on youtube, thanks for uploading . . . . .

[@ChessQueen]

In chess, up to the last second, there are 3 possible results, win, draw or loss. You've got to be totally focused and concentrated to try to achieve the best result you can.

[@ChessQueen]

The King + pawn at the end is an easy win and you will find it in every chess endgame book. The player with the extra pawn has to help the pawn become a queen by taking the opposition (standing in front of the opponent's king) then after the king moves advance to the other side and the pawn will queen for sure.

[@jean-luccarrel1448]

nice game Alexandra... and nice video, thanks

[@dmitrit81]

It's a very good game; thanks for posting your videos :)

[@msn140]

well done , its a big dream for me to play chess like you. I study now hard with chess king . and analyse your games with Houdini. :)

[@ChessQueen]

I've been to Mexico in 2006 and I liked it very much!

[@charlyflores17]

i love you kosteniuk

[@markch9v23]

that fork was rather brutal...

[@barragehat]

@noxtradamentus to make sure that a move is made before the clock is pressed. the board has pressure sensors to detect a move.

[@barragehat]

@noxtradamentus to make sure that a move is made before the clock is pressed. the board has pressure sensors, so that it will be able to detect a move.

[@ChessQueen]

It's an electronic board and clock that are connected together and go to a computer so that both the moves and the time can be shown in a java applet live on the Internet. There can be thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of people who are watching the games of important tournaments live on the Internet.

[@ChessQueen]

@Zepplinne The boards and clocks are electronic and are connected live to the internet so that everybody can watch the games live. In such tournaments there are at the same time many thousands of people watching the game in their browsers and on their phones.

[@RODRIGOCELEBRONI]

CAPABLANCA SAID: PLAY THE OPENING LIKE A BOOK, THE MIDDLE LIKE A MAGICIAN AND THE FINAL LIKE A MACHINE. AND YOU DID IT! GOOD SITE AND CONGRATS ALEXANDRA!!!

[@ChessQueen]

I am playing and will play lots of chess tournaments in 2013, this month in Geneva, then possibly Belgrade, Washington, DC, Tashkent, Moscow, Beijing, and probably some more. All information about my tournaments is on my web site.

[@ChessQueen]

Most top chess tournaments nowadays are broadcast live over the web to thousands of chess fans, thanks to electronic chess boards and clocks. You can find the web addresses of such tournaments on the "FIDE" site, or on chess blogs, for example my blog "chessblog". A good site that relays live games is "chessbomb".

[@AngelRHolguin]

I really admire how Valentina Gunina fought and battled all the way to the end against Alexandra!! I hate it when grandmasters just give up so quickly after they lose their queen or major pieces!!

[@kofeinas]

@ChessQueen Thanks for answer. I knew already about castling but this one was something new for me. Going to try it sometime indeed. Cheers.

[@ChessQueen]

Indeed 44...Rc4 would have given black a big advantage. Remember it was a blitz game and it's never over before it's over.

[@warholster]

you're making me discover women chess. Thank you for sharing your pieces of life How and when does one get to see you playing in 2013?

[@ChessQueen]

Oh yes, I would notice! ;)

[@Peterplayingguitar]

Girls that play chess........so wonderful! I wish my gf would play chess with me : (

[@ChessQueen]

This KZbin channel "chessqueen" is mine, and so the posts in my name are mine. If you have questions not related to the video, you can always email me, my contact can be found on my web site.

[@ChessQueen]

Thanks for your comment. Remember in blitz the goal is to win, and so one does not tend to want to "hold a draw" or play "simple" moves. 50...Kxh5 is of course better but after 51. Rc6 white has easy play and my white knight can become a headache for black in time trouble. By playing 50...Rd2 black was hoping for a possible ...e3 which would win f2, but that never happened.

[@ChessQueen]

41. Kh4 h6 42. Ng6 Ra7 43. Ne5 Ra4 44. Nc6 Ra2 45. Kg3 Ra3+ 46. Kg2 Kg5 47. Ne5 Ra4 48. Nf7+ Kxg4 49. Nxd6 Rxd4 50. Nf7 Rd2 51. Nxh6+ Kg5 52. Nf7+ Kxh5 53. Kg3 Kg6 54. Ne5+ Kf5 55. Ng4 Ke6 56. Kf4 Kd6 57. Ra5 Rd3 58. Ne3 Rd2 59. Ng4 Rd3 60. Ra6+ Kc5 61. Ne5 Rd2 62. Ke3 Rb2 63. Rc6+ Kb5 64. Rf6 Kc5 65. Nd7+ Kc4 66. Rc6+ Kb3 67. Rb6+ Kc3 68. Rxb2 Kxb2 69. Kd4 Kc2 70. Nf6 Kd2 71. Ng4 Ke2 72. Kxd5 Kf3 73. Ke5 Kxg4 74. Kxe4 Kg5 75. Ke5 Kg6 76. f4 Kg7 77. Ke6 Kf8 78. Kf6 Ke8 79. Kg7 Ke7 80. f5 1-0

[@djlowcut]

The en passant was almost as beatiful as both players!

[@xBorg6of9x]

Trying to understand this game better but can't find it on chessgamescom... There is another very similar game but it's from the 60th Russian Women's Superfinal.

[@ChessQueen]

Holding one's head helps to concentrate better. The opponent is not really able to look at the eyes and "guess" what I am looking at, in any case, I could be looking at a bad move, also a good chess player looks at variations all over the board, so the eyes move a lot. It's just a question of concentration.

[@ChessQueen]

@Nunchucks67 There are wires going from the board and from the clock, because they are electronic chess boards and clocks, and they are connected to a server that can shows the games and the time on the clock live on internet. Nowadays almost all important tournaments are live on the web to thousands of chess fans, who can watch the games exactly as if they were right there looking at the board and clock.

[@ChessQueen]

@JohnBlack666id Chess is a very fair game - practice daily and you will most certainly get better. Write down your moves when you play chess, then review the game with someone a little stronger than you and ask him/her where you could have played better. Each time you play you will enjoy it more and win more! Good luck!

[@ChessQueen]

All openings are playable. Games are not won in the opening, but in the middle game. The goal of the opening is to reach a "playable" middle game. You can get very interesting middle games playing 3. e5 in the Caro-Kann.

[@tonycomeau622]

What was the time control?

[@ChessQueen]

@Myoldnamesdontwork I'm not too sure what you mean by "looping", I guess repeating the same position over and over. There is a rule in chess "draw by three-fold repetition", if the position repeats itself 3 times, one of the players has the possibility to call the arbiter and request a draw. In big matches usually an arbiter is always close by. To avoid "conceding" a draw, one needs to make different moves (to avoid 3 times the same position), and that's quite hard to do when little time is left

[@ChessQueen]

That's called taking a pawn "en passant", you can google it or look in Wikipedia, it's a special rule in chess, just like castling. Luckily, there are very few such special rules in chess! :-)

[@11pupona]

And @9:02 I can't understand why Gunina doesn't play Kxh5 and you can hold the draw....anyways, as you very well said, it is blitz and it was in time pressure; so nice win Alexandra! keep uploading this videos.

[@ChessQueen]

@m3hdim3hdi 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Be2 Nd7 6. O-O Ne7 7. Nh4 Be4 8. Nd2 c5 9. g3 Qb6 10. dxc5 Nxc5 11. Nxe4 dxe4 12. Be3 Nc6 13. c3 Qxb2 14. Bd4 Rd8 15. Rb1 Qxa2 16. Bb5 Be7 17. Qg4 O-O 18. Bxc6 bxc6 19. Ra1 Qd5 20. Ng2 Nb3 21. Nf4 Qc4 22. Rxa7 Rfe8 23. Rxe7 Rxe7 24. Nh5 f5 25. exf6 Rf7 26. Nxg7 Kh8 27. Nxe6 Rg8 28. Qf5 Nxd4 29. cxd4 Qd5 30. Qxd5 cxd5 31. Nf4 Rd8 32. Rc1 Rxf6 33. Rc5 Rfd6 34. h4 Kg7 35. Rc7+ Kg8 36. Kg2 Re8 37. Rc5 Red8 38. h5 R8d7 39. Kh3 Kg7 40. g4 Kf6

[@RBB1118]

I noticed your hands up to your forehead a lot during the middle game. I've often wondered if players will shield their eyes to keep their opponent from glimpsing at you to see which pieces you're concentrating on to better guess your next moves. Or is it just a natural physical reaction to someone in deep thought?

[@sverio12345]

I won agains IM in a tournament and I had only about 1500 in rating. He went mad and threw the pieces to the floor screaming. So I laughed at him loud as a revenge for bad behavior and because he didnt shake my hand after the game. So its always interesting to look at faces after games. Mrs Kosteniuk is like a good pokerplayer and never shows motion, even when losing :)

[@ChessQueen]

@kofeinas Sure, it's a rare move, called "en passant", when you can take a pawn as if it had moved 1 square. Check the exact rules on Wikipedia (search for chess en passant capture). There are very few special moves in chess, castling is one, and en passant is another.

[@tipau]

It obviously wasn't a sacrifice, as anyone who isn't an idiot could see from her reaction. Chess is a complicated game. Everybody make mistakes, especially in blitz

[@mjccmc82]

@JohnBlack666id practice, practice, and more practice, and there are some good chess books out there as well, and also, finding a strong chess player and having lessons, studying openings, middle game, and end game, and also writing down some of your games and having someone go over them w you, studying your weaknesses, mistakes in chess are inevitable, it's about capitalizing on your opponents mistakes before they capitalize on yours, good luck and most important, have fun in chess and life :)

[@Karjalol]

can someone explain me why Gunina played dxe4 instead of Nxe4

[@anildevmattanyil2966]

omg...nice game..black had the real chance to draw....she moved the king to the wrong square in the famous king and pawn end game....its very important to be very confident in these end games rather than memorzin opening moves...sad to see even grandmasters couldnt do it properly....may be becoz of time pressure

[@TheBirdBrothers]

@ChessQueen Hi Alexandra I notice your hands are held to your face to aid concentration - but do you think it is good sometimes to also "Step back" from the board? I think it was Alekhine who even used to get up and look at position from opponens point of view occasionally =) [perhaps not in blitz LOL, that'd be a bit chaotic...] I like your videos :)

[@fretlessdaysandy9961]

Black seemed clearly better but Qxa2 wasted a tempo and made the a and b files available to attack the queen with tempo for the rooks, the game was lost rather than won, allowing the knight fork later, blitz is too often decided by known variations and tactics, not positional.

[@kofeinas]

I'm not really experienced but could You explain me who come that blonde girl moves(6:39) from F7 to F5 and other woman hits it from E5 to F6 is it some kind of rule I don't know? coz I thought it would be possible to hit it to F6 only if a pawn would be on F6. Thanks

[@RaD1K4l]

@zepplinne it is not from the clock to the board it's from both the clock and the board to a computer which is how the officials know exactly what each move was and when it was played... :)

[@dmed312]

Dang, that sucks cause I was voting for the blond the whole time. I hate it when people make bullshit sacrifices and then I start winning the endgame, and will give it back with a silly blunder.

[@Destroyer666AU]

@ChessQueen omg you are the hottest, and smartest and strongest of them all miss Chess Queen!

[@alfaxen1]

9.42 > F3 would have won the game. Anything she does get you either both pawns or making her rook useless. and then its just a matter of winning with king+rook which isnt hard.

[@jevitigre]

@noxtradamentus because it is a special board that is conected to the computer,so every move is transfered to the monitor to people see it there and in the internet.

[@CasielProductions]

it's easy to mate with pawn if you know a technique, and even if you don't you can change your pawn for queen so... it's basically a won game

[@astronomo16]

Why? Be happy with yourself. Do you want to do something good for chess (i guess that you have to be Kosteniuk)? Then, make chess sexy

[@xBorg6of9x]

@gzimkelmendi0 It's a called "En passant". I don't feel like describing it but you can look it up on Wikipedia or a chess website.

[@Chali1971]

You won the game in the ending, not in the middle game. How happy have you been with your middle game during this game ?

[@naturae-studiosum]

I think she had you but she blundered with that obvious fork.. she is also strong i thought its gonna be easy win for you

[@Stier19812002]

Can White come out better than with an equal position in the Caro-Kann advanced variation (I mean this with 3. e5 ...)??

[@KleinmeisterPang]

@TheConstipatedcamel Her opponent is a quiet young girl so if you aren't 18 years old or so search for an older woman=)

[@divukman]

4:20 Perhaps a simple combination? White takes knight on c5 and then after exchange rook can take b7? Ideas?

[@Spudst3r]

Exciting end game there, it really looked like black was going to be able to pull out a draw at the end there.

[@Guitare_picking]

you say we can watch these game played live??? from where ? can anyone give me a webadresse ?

[@ttwopercent]

Kosteniuk the knight fork always makes me hungry. But that doesn't make my Hungarian. Nicely played.

[@SeedsofJoy]

If Gunina had moved her night to D2 and then followed with her queen to F1 that was a mating opportunity?

[@2530611]

There are videos Kosteniuk playing against Karpov, Kasparov or Ian Neponiachitchin? How can I find then?

[@DaceBonearm]

Why is that board plugged into VGA connector. Are the moves being displayed on a TV?

[@TrueWodzu]

@jeanjeudy Three pieces? Which one? She won because her opponent made a blunder and lose rook...

[@Nunchucks67]

Why were there wires going from the clock to the board? I have never seen this before.

[@istan50]

@TheConstipatedcamel set to 480p and it will look good

[@rulezz264]

No use Rd4+, king can't take because the rook is protected by the knight ;)

[@ChYuarles]

tempo also a threat to your competitor. I guess white won this finally.

[@emeengor698]

especially the blonde one is a marvel... she could win so many times but she always found a way to change her position from a good one to an wtf one :P

[@TwistedMind6969]

I love seeing ladies play chess. I enjoy that game just as much!

[@maschinenmeister]

i wouldn't be proud of winning due to a heavy blunder of the opponent

[@SlothForeshadowing]

Uh kind of new to chess but how did white take that pawn at 6:43 ?

[@ChessQueen]

@suzanneramdane I won this game with white. At the end it's a simple theoretical win King + Pawn against King. The pawn will be promoted to a Queen and mate will follow. That's why Gunina resigned.

[@jtmv8915]

Dang blonde is cute. Actually both are cute. I'm not a chess fan/player, I'm just randomly watching chess videos and I've seen several cute girls but all the guys look plain and don't make my junk wiggle. Are there any hot chess dudes?? Yes I know this comment is juvenile. You can downvote me now

[@deputyVH]

Shame we can't see the clock. No idea what the time controls are.

[@LNAdrien]

wow kosteniuk you`re my muse. but grischuk is my overall idol :)

[@emeengor698]

lol black choose to make it a draw..after ruining her moments of victory then she gives away a rook for no reason at all... and then when she had one possibility to make a queen she said wtf I am making it a draw again feel safer that way :P hahahahahahaha and then she lost... hahahaha

[@wiwrd11]

she is a real chess queen, by the way she promotes the game!

[@ChessQueen]

Sorry, the arbiters only allowed the cameras on the other side so they could see the clocks in case of need. Since it was a FIDE official blitz championship, the time control was the official one of 3 minutes plus 2 seconds added per move played.

[@vil64]

It's not a new rule it's called"taking by en-passant"

[@ChessCan1]

They do not sacrifice, she looked through the turn.

[@deathbringerdk]

@suzanneramdane wins, pawn will advance and queen

[@ChessQueen]

This blitz game was played at 3 minutes for the whole game per player plus 2 seconds increment time per each move played. That's the new FIDE time control for blitz games played at the world blitz championship. Adding a small increment to each move makes the games much better quality than they used to be with "old" chess clocks and a time control of 5 minutes per player per game.

[@ChessQueen]

@foxlimacharlie That's called the "en passant" pawn capture. Check wikipedia to find out how it's done. In chess there are only two "strange" moves 1) Castling, where you move simultaneously King & Rook, and 2) En passant, where you can take a pawn immediately after it moves 2 squares as if it had moved 1 square. Exact definitions are online! It's great you're learning chess, good luck in your study!

[@2strong2cool]

Beauty and intelligence - pretty rare combination

[@oncemarkonce]

@ChessQueen "Hot" could mean anything :).. btw, you're on my facebook's friend list.. thanx for all the tips and tricks to play a better chess..

[@ChessQueen]

As Frank Marshall said "The hardest part of chess is winning a won game". In blitz it's even more so. And don't forget knights are extremely dangerous in blitz, so in practical terms knight and pawn can often hold their own against a Rook and create significant threats. Houdini 2 agrees with this and the position from the 23rd to the 43rd move is evaluated as about equal. I missed 23. Nh5! which is crushing. She missed a few better moves in the endgame. It's normal, it's blitz!

[@ChessQueen]

@tonycomeau622 The time control was the official FIDE blitz time control, 3 + 2, which means 3 minutes for the whole game + 2 seconds added each move. It about the same as 5 minutes per game but it's better because it avoids the risk of losing on time with very large material advantage.

[@LLucasViana]

10:40 is possible Nxe4 dxe4 Kxe4 white wins.

[@ChessQueen]

Pretty much all my chess games are in the GigaKing database included in the chess software Chess King. This one is included there for sure, as well as over 1,300 of my other games played in official tournaments. GigaKing has over 5 million master games.

[@ChessQueen]

@2530611 Yes I have videos of me playing Karpov, several of them. Kasparov stopped playing competitive chess when I was a kid.

[@ChessQueen]

If you Googled it you'd be able to find it out. In 2006 I played the Mexico Rapid Chess Invitational. I won 2 out of my 3 matches, against Mexican GM Gilberto Hernandez (2551 ELO) and against legendary GM Viktor Kortchnoi (2607 ELO) from Switzerland. I only lost one match against GM Sergei Karjakin of the Ukraine (ELO 2672), who eventually ended up winning the tournament, with 4 points.

[@hawaawy]

the blonde was nervus and beautiful

[@ChessQueen]

@TheBirdBrothers Sure it's useful sometimes to step back, but not in blitz :-) Some players also close their eyes or look to the side, and imagine the position in their minds.

[@ChessQueen]

@Norvegicus7 Thanks for your kind comment, I'm glad you like my videos. Sure, to get better you need to have passion and love of chess that allows you to train and play chess without counting the hours. A good training tool could be the chess software Chess King as well as some Tactics Training programs. I use them and they help.

[@ChessQueen]

@kokudouful For those of you who don't speak Japanese (like me), this is what Google Translate says it corresponds to: "Chess - I work out really well. Kosutenyuku indeed! ! Tactical move, but could not understand at all, just awesome win by a single pawn! ! It was pleasant match was like the other players do not give up until the end."

[@АлександрГребенев-щ1б]

ох, и сильно же Саша конями играет!

[@ChessQueen]

@Myoldnamesdontwork It's a chess clock, to measure time. Chess games are played with a limited amount of time for both players (otherwise the losing player might think "forever" to avoid losing), for example 5 minutes for the whole game, or 1 hour for the whole game. If time runs out, you lose the game, regardless of the position on the board. This blitz game was played at 3 minutes for the whole game per player plus 2 seconds increment time per move.