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The
Russian Women Chess Championship was played from 28 June to
11 July in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan in central Russia. Kazan
is the town from which Alisa Galliamova hails.
This year the tournament gathered the best Russian players, including Alexandra Kosteniuk, Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, Svetlana Matveeva.
The women's championship was an 11 round all-play-all, which is a novelty in the history of the Russian female championships. This also applies to the prize fund of about $50,000. The event was covered live on the Internet.
The 2004 Russian Women's Champion Tatiana Kosintseva
The title of Russian Women's Chess Champion was won by 18-year-old Tatiana Kosintseva, who scored 8.5 points in 11 games. Half a point behind her we find the European Women's Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk. One and a half points below her is Tatiana's sister Nadezhda Kosintseva. Local star Alisa Galliamova was 4-5 with six points, while many-time women's champion of the USSR and Russia, Svetlana Matveeva, scored a very disappointing 3.5 points to finish at the end of the table.
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Local star Alisa Galliamova in front of a poster promoting the Russian Women's Championship – the first held as a full round robin with an unprecedented $50,000 prize fund. |
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The Kosintseva sisters visiting the Raif Monastery in Kazan |
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The two sisters in the Raif Monastary, where women are not allowed in jeans or slacks (a cloth wrap is provided) or with uncovered heads. |
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Out of historical interest: Ivan Vasilevich Groznyi ("Ivan the Terrible"), who was crowned first Czar of Russia in 1547, conquered Kazan in 1552 and built the famous St. Basil's Cathedral on the Red Square in Moscow to commemorate this conquest. |
A birthday greeting for WGM Svetlana Matveeva, who turned
35 on July 4th
A simultaneous exhibition by GM Andrei Kharlov, who returned to Kazan,
where he lives, after his loss to Topalov in round five of the FIDE world championship
in Tripoli.
Kharlov's wife Elena Zaiatz. After her husband had returned to Kazan she
scored 2.5 points in three games.
Players in front of the tournament hotel
The Kosintseva sisters Tatiana and Nadezhda
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