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Chess queen plots her next move (Yes, there are pics!)
The Republican-American ^
| 2/3/2009
| Evan S. Benn
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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TOPICS: Hobbies
KEYWORDS: chess; femaledomination; mating
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I only got to play my buddies in school....
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:06:21 AM PST
by
raybbr
To: martin_fierro; Clemenza
You guys got an appropriate ping list for this?
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:07:46 AM PST
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: raybbr
I wouldn’t mind being her pawn.
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:08:35 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: raybbr
I only got to play my buddies in school.... LOL!
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:08:50 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: raybbr
I like chest..ooops..chess...
Qxk3!
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:09:26 AM PST
by
y6162
To: raybbr
The fine queen needs to be knighted!
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:09:28 AM PST
by
meyer
(We are all John Galt)
To: raybbr
Checkmate! I mean, not guilty!
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:10:29 AM PST
by
OB1kNOb
(Quinn's 1st Law - Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its original intent.)
To: raybbr
"...her husband, Diego Garces,..."Darn the luck - my dreams shattered! :-)
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:10:46 AM PST
by
meyer
(We are all John Galt)
To: Army Air Corps
Hmm, my Bishop seems to have moved.
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:10:48 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: raybbr
One of our fellow FReepers has played against her online, I believe.
To: meyer
"The fine queen needs to be knighted!" I think she needs to be jumped.
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:11:47 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Perdogg
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:13:56 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama thinks spending tax $ on abortions in Mexico helps more than controlling illegal immigration)
To: raybbr
I'd like to take that pawn, en-passant.
We could castle up together.
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:13:57 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Illegal Zombies: Just Eating the Brains that Ordinary Americans Won't Eat)
To: raybbr
“Kosteniuk, 24...” “...said her husband, 49”
You go dude! Lol.
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:15:03 AM PST
by
Craigon
To: raybbr
I would let her mate me anytime.....
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:15:56 AM PST
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: Retired Greyhound
One of our fellow FReepers has played against her online, I believe.Isn't that like chatting on a sex site? LOL No substitute for handling the piece.
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:17:36 AM PST
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: Joe 6-pack
I think she needs to be jumped. That's not a legal move!
To: raybbr; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson; Clemenza
Kosteniuk, 24, won the Women's World Championship in her homeland of Russia Darn. I was sizing up her prospects as a Czech mate.
To: BlueDragon
"That's not a legal move!" All's fair in love and war.
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:22:58 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: raybbr
[ Report Abuse | Bookmark ] I only got to play my buddies in school.... I played a lot of 'solitaire'...
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posted on
02/04/2009 10:33:28 AM PST
by
Sloth
(The tree of liberty desperately needs watering.)
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