11/17/2010 – The 60th Russian Women's Championship Super Final has started in Moscow. Before it did there was an opening ceremony at the Chess House, with prominent players from the Tal and Blitz Championships in attendence – as well as a simul playing mechanical robot, which earlier had fearlessly mated the chief economic advisor of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. Pictures and videos.
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60th Russian Women's Chess Championship Super Final
This is taking place in the Moscow Central House of Chess from November
16 to 27, with rounds beginning at 15:00h local time. The tournament is
a round robin with Tatiana Kosintseva (2581), Nadezhda Kosintseva (2576),
Alexandra Kosteniuk (2507), Alisa Galliamova (2487), Valentine Gunina
(2479), Natalia Pogonina (2472), Olga Girya (2435), Anastasia Bodnaruk
(2407), Nazi Paykidze (2401), Svetlana Matveeva (2389), Tatiana Schadrina
(2384) and Vera Nebolsina (2377). The prize fund is 1,400,000 Rubles =
33,000 Euros = US $45,000.
Between
the Tal Memorial and the World Blitz Championship there was a reception for
the start of the Russian Women’s Championship ("Super Final"),
which is taking place from November 16-27 in Moscow. A number of Tal and World
Blitz participants attended, as documented by Chess-News,
a new (okay, we only discovered it recently) Russian language service, which
sent its reporter Eugene Surov to the party.
Participants Alisa Galljamova, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Nadezhda and Tatiana
Kosintseva,
all full GMs, interview a new applicant for a place in the Women's Championship.
She is budding young talent Francesca Maria, daughter
of Alexandra, who may be starting a tad early
She does take part in an informal blitz encounter between the participants and
guests
Mum Alexandra is the reigning Women's World Champion
Sisters Nadezhda and Tatiana, favourites for the Russian Championship –
at 2576
and 2581 they are number five and four respectively in the November world rankings
The man behind the girls: trainer Yuri Dokhoian, former second of Garry Kasparov
Here's a short video interview (in Russian) with these very talented young
ladies
Another prominent participant: Natalia Pogonina, standing behind the super sisters
Men having fun at the women's championship: Kramnik plays Aronian, Karjakin
plays Gelfand
... and they'll play all the way down to bare kings!
Suave: fashion model Magnus Carlsen speaks to the ladies
I Robot
Here's the bad news: one of the participants at the Russian Women's Championship
is a machine of female gender – now stop that, be serous!! Actually a
Russian technology company was showing an industrial robot wired to a chess
playing program that fascinated many of the guests – including and especially
Vladimir Kramnik, who played a game against it.
Kramnik is closely watched by Arkady Dvorkovich, Russian economist and Chief
Economic Advisor to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev (his father, Vladimir
Dvorkovich, was an international chess arbiter and a close friend of Garry Kasparov).
If you speak Russian you will enjoy the taller Vlady's comments, if not you
will enjoy his body language when the robot makes a move. Note how meticulously
it presses the clock.
Want to see something even more depressing? The contraption can swivel 360°
and actually play simultaneous blitz against four opponents. Earlier this year
it took on a cute pig-tailled girl and the above mentioned Vladimir Dvorkovich,
who got mated by the machine on f7.
The games are being broadcast live on
the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com.
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