Kosteniuk in Martigny 2009 (French)

A clip from Canal 9 TV about Women's World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk's visit to Martigny, Valais, Switzerland on April 25, 2009 for a 30-board simul. Alexandra scored 27 wins, 2 draws, and 1 loss against Gérald Darbellay.

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• Chess
• Queen
• Alexandra
• Kosteniuk
• Martigny
• Valais

[jevitigre]

Alexandra, when and where you`re going to play the next tournament?

[chessqueentv]

I have a match against the French women champion Sophie Milliet in Corsica in 10 days.

[oxiigen]

Your highness, do you usually open 1.d4 when you play simultaneous games? You know, I want to prepare some good reply if I'll be lucky enough to play with you one day like this... :)

[chessqueentv]

I used to play always 1.e4 in simuls, but then it seems some players copy their neighbors, so I've switched to alternating 1.e4 and 1.d4 and the games are always quite interesting.

[oxiigen]

Oh, I don't doubt that are your games interesting, but as I can see now , also tricky for us to prepare for such an event!

So, thank you for revealing us so kind your secret opening répertoire! :)

I have one more question for now, if you'll find some time to answer; do you enjoy in such a games more if your opponents play calm, positional games, like Petrosian or Smislov used to play on example or in a games with a wild combinations and aggressive sacrifices, like Alekhine or Tal did?

[chessqueentv]

I like both! Of course I like a lot the games with wild combinations as it's a challenge each move to see if there is a tactical blow or not and if there is one I'm very happy about it.

[Nickybisme]

Haha le mec qui dit que t'es agreable a regarder, alors il ne faut pas etre distrait!

[WHITECLAO]

hi alexandra , congrats for being a title holder of chess queen, just only now, i browse u, beating magnus carlsen in one of ur game, hope u cud, go far in the world of chess, just consider me as ur avid fan,:-) by the way i'm oliver from philippines, anyway, good luck to ur career :-) i wish u more success alexandra

( WORLD CHESS CHAMPION) kep it up :-)

[oxiigen]

Thank you Alexandra for your kind answers! I'm going to practice chess now, to prepare something for you, but be careful, I know your opening secrets now! :)