Posted on 02/04/2009 10:06:21 AM PST by raybbr
The best women's chess player in the world flipped a dirty diaper into the trash as she pondered her next move after a dominating year.
"I want to open a chess academy online, keep training, doing the podcast," South Floridian Alexandra Kosteniuk said during a recent stroll with her baby, Francesca. "But right now, my priority is being a mommy."
Kosteniuk, 24, won the Women's World Championship in her homeland of Russia in September. After several months of traveling the globe, Kosteniuk, her husband, Diego Garces, and their 20-month-old daughter are settled back at their home in Key Biscayne, Fla.
An aspiring model who uses her good looks to promote chess, Kosteniuk has been compared to Russian tennis knockout (and Miami Beach, Fla., resident) Anna Kournikova. (Kosteniuk debunks the comparison by noting that she has won individual tournaments, a feat the other Russian cannot claim.)
But, like Kournikova, Kosteniuk has managed to broaden her sport's appeal by selling her combination of talent and beauty.
About 3,000 people subscribe to her podcast at chessiscool.com, and about 10,000 others log on each month to her Web site, where they can see photos of Kosteniuk in bikinis and buy her instructional DVDs.
"It's the most popular chess site out there," said her husband, 49, who is also her webmaster and publicist.
They met at a chess demonstration that Kosteniuk hosted in Switzerland, Garces' home country. He is an attentive handler, lugging oversize chess pieces to photo shoots and making sure that certain shots are off-limits — nothing promiscuous and no photos of the hubby, please.
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Queen’s gambit ACCEPTED!
“Milosh!”
I’d love to put the moves on her...
I finally figured out a use for my oversized chess pieces!
NO more calls, please.
We have a winner!
Absolutely, positively, not guilty.
Since there is nothing physically requiring of the game, why are men and women separated in this sport?
well, if they all looked like that, i’d prolly be an unfair distraction!
i feel like i’m in a time machine...
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