Kosintseva sisters

(IN PHOTO: Tatiana and Nadezhda)

I really love to watch women beating men over the board. As much as possible, I want the beating look like a merciless murder, a very horrifying tragedy to the eyes of men.

The beating becomes more beautiful when the woman is a real beauty and the male looks . . . ehem.

It becomes even more beautiful when the Elo rating of the macho male sitting at the opposite of the board is 100 Elo points higher than that of the beautiful lady.

Oh wow, the story becomes inspiring indeed when two sisters do it in one, strong tournament. That's exactly what sisters GM Tatiana Kosintseva (2515) and IM Nadezhda Kosintseva (2533) did in Round 1 of Aeroflot Open 2010 Tournament A1.

Tatiana did the unthinkable by beating GM Sergey Volkov (2623) while her sister Nadezhda accomplished a more difficult task by defeating GM Farrukh Amonatov (2634) of Tajikistan with Black.

Why am I highlighting a women's cause here in my blog?

It's because my dream is to see Philippine chess to flourish with elite, world-class, top-level women chess warriors.

Well, that's my dream.

Here are their winning games:
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PGNs:

[Event "Aeroflot Open"]
[Site "Moscow RUS"]
[Date "2010.02.09"]
[EventDate "2010.02.09"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "F Amonatov"]
[Black "N Kosintseva"]
[ECO "C45"]
[WhiteElo "2634"]
[BlackElo "2533"]
[PlyCount "72"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Be3 Qf6 6. c3 Nge7 7. Bc4 Ne5
8. Bb3 Qg6 9. O-O d5 10. Bf4 Bg4 11. Qc2 f6 12. Ba4+ c6 13. Nd2 O-O 14. f3
Bd7 15. Rae1 Rfe8 16. Kh1 Rad8 17. Qb1 Qf7 18. Bc2 N5g6 19. Bc7 Rc8 20. Bg3
Bb6 21. exd5 cxd5 22. Bb3 Bxd4 23. cxd4 Nf5 24. Bf2 Nf4 25. g4 Rxe1 26.
Rxe1 Nh3 27. gxf5 Nxf2+ 28. Kg2 Nh3 29. Kxh3 Qh5+ 30. Kg2 Qg5+ 31. Kh1 Qxd2
32. Qe4 Kh8 33. Qe7 Bc6 34. Qe6 Rg8 35. Rd1 Qxb2 36. Bxd5 Re8 0-1

[Event "Aeroflot Open"]
[Site "Moscow RUS"]
[Date "2010.02.09"]
[EventDate "2010.02.09"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "T Kosintseva"]
[Black "Sergey1 Volkov"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "2515"]
[BlackElo "2623"]
[PlyCount "114"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Be7 7. Be3 Qb6 8.
Na4 Qa5+ 9. c3 c4 10. b4 Qb5 11. Nc5 Qc6 12. a4 O-O 13. Be2 Rd8 14. Nxd7
Nxd7 15. O-O Nf8 16. Qe1 Bd7 17. Bd1 Be8 18. Bc2 f5 19. exf6 Bxf6 20. Ne5
Bxe5 21. dxe5 Bg6 22. Bxg6 Nxg6 23. g4 Rf8 24. Qg3 Qd7 25. Rf2 Rf7 26. Bd4
Ne7 27. Qe3 Nc6 28. a5 Nxd4 29. Qxd4 Qe7 30. Raf1 Qh4 31. f5 Raf8 32. f6 a6
33. Kg2 h5 34. gxh5 Qxd4 35. cxd4 gxf6 36. exf6 Rh7 37. Re1 Kf7 38. Re5 Rh6
39. Kh3 Rxf6 40. Rg2 Rg8 41. Rxg8 Kxg8 42. Kg4 Kf7 43. Re2 Rf1 44. h6 Rd1
45. Kh5 c3 46. Rg2 Rd2 47. Rg7+ Kf8 48. h4 Rf2 49. Rc7 Kg8 50. h7+ Kh8 51.
Kg6 Rf8 52. Rxc3 Re8 53. Rc7 Rb8 54. Rg7 e5 55. dxe5 d4 56. e6 d3 57. e7
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