The Russian Championships 2012

ChessBase complaing about the lack of fighting games in the men's event.
(80% draws so far) proudly state:

"Thank goodness for the women though, whose tournament may lack the Elo
power their male counterparts bear, but whose competitiveness should serve as
an example."

An example of the female "competitiveness".

Nadezhda Kosintseva (2524) - Tatiana Kosintseva (2530) Russian Champs. 2012.

I wonder if they will bring out a book of these games.
Does anybody have an exact figure the number of times this game has
played between these two. This is the 2nd time in as many months this year.
Off hand I coming up with 7 times in serious competition.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
ChessBase complaing about the lack of fighting games in the men's event.
(80% draws so far) proudly state:

"Thank goodness for the women though, whose tournament may lack the Elo
power their male counterparts bear, but whose competitiveness should serve as
an example."

An example of the female "competitiveness".

Nadezhda Kosintseva ( ...[text shortened]... 4 hxg4 9. Nxe5 Bd6 10. Nxd3 Bh2+ 11. Kh1 Bg3+ 12. Kg1 Bh2+ 13. Kh1 Bg3+ 14. Kg1 Bh2+ [/pgn]

They have solved chess! Everyone goes to the tourn, plays this game out, and shares first prize! They would even share one heck of a trophy with everyone's name on it.

Hi Duchess,

Possibly, as well as the men.

This is now a running joke in the chess world, it's possibly a stance
against other pre-arranged draws.
At least we never see a case of one sister rolling over to let the other
sister win thus giving her a free point.
Instead both girls get an extra rest day. 🙂

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Hi Duchess,

Possibly, as well as the men.

This is now a running joke in the chess world, it's possibly a stance
against other pre-arranged draws.
At least we never see a case of one sister rolling over to let the other
sister win thus giving her a free point.
Instead both girls get an extra rest day. 🙂

Given that there will always be someone accusing malfeasance in the case of a decisive result between siblings, their draws may be the way they think they can minimize the amount of grief they receive.

The idea that women play more fighting chess than men is preposterous. If you look at open tournaments where the participants are the same rating as the top women, the draw rates are pretty much exactly equal.

Hi Paul.

That is what I am thinking as well.

I'm not having a serious dig at them, it's ChessBorg I'm having fun with.

They claim the women are producing more fighting chess and then have this
game in their argument.

Fourteen times according to chessgames.com:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?player=+Kosintseva+&pid2=&player2=+Kosintseva+

Edit: Actually I can see at least three duplicates in that list.

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I think security may well have escorted them out before they could setup the table and board on the badminton court.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
ChessBase complaing about the lack of fighting games in the men's event.
(80% draws so far) proudly state:

"Thank goodness for the women though, whose tournament may lack the Elo
power their male counterparts bear, but whose competitiveness should serve as
an example."

An example of the female "competitiveness".

Nadezhda Kosintseva ( ...[text shortened]... 4 hxg4 9. Nxe5 Bd6 10. Nxd3 Bh2+ 11. Kh1 Bg3+ 12. Kg1 Bh2+ 13. Kh1 Bg3+ 14. Kg1 Bh2+ [/pgn]

This should not be a draw.
White is clearly winning!





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The Klitschko brothers do at least have the honesty not to fight each other at all, and to have said so in public. They don't pretend to fight and then throw the game.

Richard

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
The Klitschko brothers do at least have the honesty not to fight each other at all, and to have said so in public. They don't pretend to fight and then throw the game.

Richard

Boxing gives brothers the option of not fighting each other. Chess doesn't, especially in tournament play. Their only alternative would be not to play in the same tournament at all, but that's not very practical.