Kosteniuk checkmates Morozevich

At the Moscow 2009 World Blitz Championship, Chess Queen® Alexandra Kosteniuk beats Chess Grandmaster Alexander Morozevich in a nice Sicilian Defense game. Sample of the DVD "Chess Blitz Fever" by Alexandra Kosteniuk.

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[ILikeGirlsWthBigEyes]

@ChessQueen Hi Alexandra. :) I was wondering, can you remember what the joke was that you shared with Morozevich before the game started?

[ChessQueen]

@ILikeGirlsWthBigEyes I don't think it was a joke, probably small talk about what was happening in the tournament. Before such important games you don't want to lose concentration or focus.

[dufflepuds]

Could you please include the Time Controls of your games Grandmaster Kosteniuk.

You say "We both have 1:40" left, but seem to stare at the board for about 30 seconds per move after this.

Morozevich's opening did not contain any central pawn breaks. His 'only' break was a5, which did not offer counterplay.

[ChessQueen]

@dufflepuds Indeed the full description is not in the YouTube version, sorry. The world blitz chess championship was played with FIDE blitz time controls of 3 + 2, which means 3 minutes per player per game with an additional 2 seconds per move after that to guarantee "correct" play at the end of the game.

You are right I was the one to do a central pawn break, but that was dictated by the opening and simply gave me early equality with black. The fun part started in the middle game.

[renumeratedfrog]

Congratulations.... Now go after Nakamura :)

[Ronbo710]

Beautiful Sicilian victory !! I always wonder what to play after white plays c3 in the beginning :). Thank You for sharing.

[teogialigous]

very well done alexandra!!this game has helped me a lot many times to prepare in my own games because i play this system as Black and i always get many ideas out of this game!!!

[scomposizioni]

"FianCHEtto" is an italian word: the correct pronunciation is "fianKetto". CHE = K... as in "Kosteniuk". :-)

[Electromusicaus]

Nice work!!

[01tizoc]

Great game! I really enjoyed this game. Congratulations... ChessQueen!

Greetings! From Mexico! (Ng3) =)

[Fand421]

What a nice mate at the end. I'll use it in the next lesson I give.

[ChessQueen]

@sotovo You must have quite a smart dachsund, if he can win a game of chess, even against a Grandmaster rated 2750 ELO like Morozevich. By the way, I would hardly call a position after the 3rd move of white "an endgame" ;-)

[sotovo]

@Fupper16 Yes, it was very dubious. Dubious enough, that Alexandra barely had to even play at all! In fact, after white played c3, he might as well have resigned! Even my dachsund could convert that "endgame."