Diary of a Chess Queen

Kosteniuk, Alexandra

ISBN 10: 0979148278 / ISBN 13: 9780979148279

Published by Mongoose Press, Newton Highlands MA, 2009

About this Item

244 pages. foreword by Anatoly Karpov. "Part memoir and travelogue, part game collection.features a selection of 64 annotated games with a wide range of world-class competitors."; 6 x 9 ".

Seller Inventory # 83702

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Diary of a Chess Queen
• Publisher: Mongoose Press, Newton Highlands MA
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979148278
• ISBN 13: 9780979148279
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk chronicles her rise to the top of the chess world in this introspective autobiographical work. Drawing from personal diaries kept during her youth, Kosteniuk takes the reader from the very dawn of her career as a child star in Russia, through triumph and disappointment, and finally to the pinnacle of success on the black-and-white battlefield.

About the Author

Fashion model, wife and mother, Alexandra Kosteniuk became the European Women's Chess Champion in 2004 and the Russian Women's Chess Champion in 2005, then prevailed in the final match for the Women's World Championship in 2008.