Anthony Kosten

Anthony Cornelius costs ( born July 24, 1958 in London ) is an English chess player and chess author. His books about chess openings usually appeared under the name Tony costs. The title International Master is awarded to him in 1984 and the Grandmaster title in 1990. Since 2002 he plays for the French Chess Federation.

He is married to the chess player Gyöngyvér Forintos (born 1967 ), a daughter of the Hungarian grandmaster Győző Forintos, and lives in the Auvergne region. He runs the website chesspublishing.com. His current Elo rating is 2506 (as of January 2010), his previous highest was in 2551 from July to December 2002.

Achievements

Individual Championships

At the British Individual Championship 1982 in Torquay, he finished shared third place.

He won the following chess tournaments:

Team Championships

With the England team, he participated in the European Championships in 1989 in Haifa, where he received a bronze medal for his individual score of 5 points from 7 games on the first reserve board. In 1990 he took part in the first VISA Chess Summits for England. England reached the second place.

In the British 4NCL played costs from 1995 to 2001 in Slough, since for Guildford A &DC; he won that 1996, 1999 and 2000, 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2013., the French team championship he could in the season 2001/ 02 with CEMC Monaco win, for whom he played until 2006. After that he played for Marseille and Montpellier Échecs Duchamp, since the 2011/12 season he played for the Club de Bischwiller. In the German Chess Bundesliga he played in the 2000/ 01 season with the TSV Schott Mainz. In Austria he played from 2002 to 2004 for the SV Frohnleiten and 2004-2010 for wood - Dohr Semriach, who took over the starting right of the SV Frohnleiten. In the Austrian season 2007/ 08 he had by all players of the league with nine most points (before Rainer Buhmann from SK Maria Saal 8.5 ). In the Swiss National League A (Chess ), he played in the 2006 season for Lausanne Le Joueur. Also in the Hungarian and Basque ( for Oaso XT) team championship he was already active.

Writings

  • Winning Endgames. The Crowood Press, Ramsbury, 1987, ISBN 0-946284-69-5.
  • Winning with the Philidor. Batsford, London 1992, ISBN 0-7134-6945-5.
  • New Ideas in the Nimzo - Indian Defence. Batsford, London 1994, ISBN 0-7134-7377-0.
  • Latvian Gambit. Batsford, London 1995, ISBN 0-7134-7619-2.
  • 101 Tips to Improve Your Chess. Henry Holt, New York 1996, ISBN 0-8050-4732-8.
  • Trends in the Philidor. Trends Publications, London 1997, ISBN 1-85932-032-5.
  • French Advance. Everyman Chess, London 1998, ISBN 1-901259-10-2.
  • Mastering the Nimzo - Indian: With the Read and Play Method. Batsford, London 1998, ISBN 0-7134-8383-0.
  • Dynamic English. Gambit Publications, London 1999, ISBN 1-901983-14-5.
  • Easy Guide to the Najdorf. Everyman Chess, London 1999, ISBN 1-85744-529-5.
  • Sicilian Classic ( B56 - B59 ). ChessBase, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-932466-84-5. (CD -ROM)
  • The Latvian Gamit Lives!. Batsford, London 2001, ISBN 0-7134-8629-5.
  • Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings: Dazzle Your Opponents! . Everyman Chess, London 2008, ISBN 1-85744-583- X. (together with Richard Palliser and James Vigus )
Auvergne (region) Budapest Andorra Hastings Jonny Hector Asti Chanac Saint-Affrique Christian Bauer Villeurbanne Jean-Luc Seret Castelldefels Mundolsheim Michael Adams (chess player) Keith Arkell Murray Chandler Stuart Conquest Nigel Davies (chess player) Stephen J. Gordon Stewart Haslinger Julian Hodgson David Howell (chess player) Gawain Jones Daniel J. King Luke McShane Jonathan Mestel John Nunn Jonathan Penrose Nigel Short Jon Speelman Michael Stean William Watson (chess player) Harry Golombek Jacques Mieses Manuel Apicella Laurent Fressinet Hichem Hamdouchi Marie Sebag Andrei Sokolov Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Ossip Bernstein Nicolas Rossolimo Savielly Tartakower Integrated Authority File
69449
de