In partnership with the Annex Chess Club, the Chess Institute of Canada is excited to welcome women and girls to a free evening of chess hosted by Women’s World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk! The event starts at 6:30 PM at 918 Bathurst St. in Toronto.
Meet other chess-playing women and girls – and former World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk – tonight at 918 Bathurst St.!
It’s all part of the Annex Chess Club’s “Toronto Women’s Chess Club,” a monthly initiative to promote chess to women and girls. In celebration of the FIDE Championships currently being held in Toronto, admission for the Club tonight is free for all Chess Institute instructors and students who are women and girls.
Alexandra Kosteniuk was the was the Women’s World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010 and Women’s World Rapid Chess Champion in 2021. She was European women’s champion in 2004 and a two-time Russian Women’s Chess Champion (in 2005 and 2016). Kosteniuk won the team gold medal playing for Russia at the Women’s Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012 and 2014; the Women’s World Team Chess Championship of 2017 and the Women’s European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017; and the Women’s Chess World Cup 2021. In 2022, due to sanctions imposed on Russian players after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she switched federations, and as of March 2023 she represents Switzerland.
with information from Wikipedia.
