Chess Blog for Girls

Susan Polgar's personal blog is one of the most well known in the chess world. She is a prolific blogger - posting tirelessly several blog posts a day on that blog. It's incredible for someone to have such energy and love for the game.

This is Susan Polgar's lesser known blog. It's especially just for events organised for girls by the Polgar Foundation.

Check it out at http://polgargirls.blogspot.com/

WGM Zhang Jilin blog

Adding to the list of Chess Queens is a WGM blog that I found on the net. Her name is WGM Zhang Jilin and she is quite a strong female chess player too.

http://blog.sina.com.cn/zhangjilin


Here's a game where she defeated Tania Sachdev at the World Junior Championship (Girls) 2006.





[Event "World Junior Championship (Girls)"]
[Site "Yerevan ARM"]
[Date "2006.10.12"]
[EventDate "2006.10.03"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Zhang Jilin"]
[Black "Tania Sachdev"]
[ECO "B43"]
[WhiteElo "2292"]
[BlackElo "2383"]
[PlyCount "95"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be2 Nf6 7. O-O Nc6 8. Kh1 Bb4 9. Qd3 O-O 10. Bg5 Be7 11. f4 d6 12. Rad1 Ne8 13. Bxe7 Qxe7 14. e5 d5 15. Na4 Qb4 16. b3 Qxd4 17. Qxd4 Nxd4 18. Rxd4 b5 19. Nc5 Ra7 20. Kg1 Rc7 21. b4 f6 22. Bg4 Rc6 23. c3 Nc7 24. Bd1 Na8 25. a4 bxa4 26. Bxa4 Rc7 27. exf6 Rxf6 28. Bb3 Nb6 29. Ra1 Nd7 30. Nxe6 Rxe6 31. Bxd5 Nf6 32. Bxe6+ Bxe6 33. Rxa6 Kf7 34. Ra3 Bc4 35. Ra5 Bb3 36. b5 Rxc3 37. b6 Ng4 38. Ra1 Be6 39. Rb4 Bd5 40. b7 Rc2 41. b8=Q Rxg2+ 42. Kf1 Nxh2+ 43. Ke1 Nf3+ 44. Kd1 Rg1+ 45. Ke2 Rxa1 46. Qc7+ Ke6 47. Rb6+ Kf5 48. Qd7+ 1-0

A Chess Princess is born

A little bit late news but news nonetheless.

Kosteniuk gave birth to a chess princess, Francesca, on April 22, 2007.

Congratulations to the father and mother of this new beautiful baby!!

Believe it or not, little Francesca already has her very own blog .

Susan Polgar Chess Blog: A NEW Champion will be crowned

Susan Polgar Chess Blog: A NEW Champion will be crowned

Even Susan Polgar thinks Xu Yuhua has the best chance to become World Champ!

Top 4 in Women World Championship

vs
Cmilyte, Viktorija (LTU) * Galliamova, Alisa (RUS)


vs
Matveeva, Svetlana (RUS) * Xu, Yuhua (CHN)

Who do you think will win?

I favor Xu Yuhua.

Chimi downs 3 GM

19 year old Batchimeg Tuvshintugs or "Chimi" of Oakland is doing sensationally well in the US Championship B Group.
Chimi started the first round by beating GM Alex Fisbein ,the first time she has ever beaten a GM! The second GM she beat was GM Boris Kreiman in Round 3.
Chimi then beat GM Julio Becerra (ELO 2556) in Round 5 on the Black side.

She currently has 3.5 points out of 5 - tied second place after 5 rounds.
Chimi plays White vs Gata Kamsky in Round 6.

Related Link:

US Championship official website

Susan Polger National Invitational for Girls

Chess Blog For Girls: Rules and Conditions for the 2006 SP National Invitational for Girls. The tournament will be played during the U.S. Open Championship.

Kosteniuk performs well in Aeroflot 2006

Alexandra Kosteniuk finishes in 24th place in the very strong Aeroflot championship.
She achieved a performance rating (TPR) of 2657 which is a very good result considering she her
actual ELO is just 2514 only. She played 9 very strong male GMs (+2 =6 -1). Also impressive was she was only seeded 90 but ended up finishing in 24th place.

Here's Kosteniuk's win over GM Kepinski (ELO 2619):

Koneru vs Smeets

Humpy Koneru of India is continuing her steady improvement in the past few years. She recently completed Corus B group with a minus one score (2580 performance), beating Cheparinov, Smeets, Stellwagen and Lahno along the way.

quote from Susan Polgar Blog

Here's a game showing her prowress beating Smeets.Analysis by Susan Polgar

World Women Championship

The Women World Chess Championship will take place next month.
Date: March 10-27
Venue: Ekaterinburg, Russia

Exciting times because at least 20 of the active strongest chess players in the world will be fighting for the championship.

Alexandra Kosteniuk is one of the strongest player there. We are sure that the web savvy GM will cover the event well at her website.


The top 10 players taking part:
1 Koneru, Humpy
2 Cramling Pia
3 Kosteniuk, Alexandra
4 Chiburdanidze, Maya
5 Xu, Yuhua
6 Lahno Kateryna
7 Stefanova, Antoaneta
8 Zhu, Chen
9 Kosintseva Nadezhda
10 Hoang Xuan Thanh Khiet
Full list of particpants

Chess Queens

This blog is to promote chess for girls. Many more females are playing competitive chess and I hope one day girls will make a stronger mark in the chess scene.