Anthony costs

Anthony Cost, Andorra 2007
Surname	Anthony Cornelius costs
Association	England (until 2002) France (since 2002)
Born	July 24, 1958 London , United Kingdom
title	International Master (1984) Grand Master (1990)
Current  Elo rating	2369 (April 2020)
Best Elo rating	2551 (July and October 2002)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Anthony Cornelius Kosten (born July 24, 1958 in London ) is an English chess player and chess author. His books on chess openings mostly appeared under the name Tony Kosten . He was awarded the title of International Master in 1984 and the title of Grand Master in 1990. Since 2002 he has played for the French Chess Federation .

He is married to the chess player Gyöngyvér Forintos (* 1967), a daughter of the Hungarian grandmaster Győző Forintos , and lives in the Auvergne region . He runs the website chesspublishing.com .

successes

Individual championships

At the British Individual Championship in Torquay in 1982 , costs took third place.

He won the following chess tournaments, among others:

• 1984: GM tournament in Budapest ( category 7)
• 1985: International Open of Andorra
• 1986: 1st International Master Open in Geneva . Kosten, then still an international champion, won with 8.5 points from 9 games. In the field of 170 players, he left well-known players such as Tony Miles , Glenn Flear , Miguel Quinteros , Lars Karlsson , Jonny Hector and Smbat Lputjan behind.
• 1987: Challengers Open in Hastings ; 3rd International Open in Cappelle-la-Grande (shared with Anatoli Waisser and Jonny Hector )
• 1989: Challengers Open in Hastings
• 1991: International Open in San Benedetto (shared)
• 1992: International Open in Mandelieu
• 1993: 16th Open in Asti
• 1994: International Open in Chanac , 2nd International Open in Saint-Affrique
• 1995: International Open in Chanac
• 2000: Medoc Masters in Naujac-sur-Mer , 3rd Open in L'Etang-Salé
• 2003: 23rd International Open in Clermont-Ferrand ; 10th Masters Chess Festival in Montpellier (shared with Jean-Marc Degraeve and Christian Bauer ); 2. IM Trophee Masters in Villeurbanne (Category 4)
• 2004: 24th International Open in Clermont-Ferrand; 7th Wines of Medoc Open in Naujac-sur Mer (shared with Jean-Luc Seret and Henrik Teske ); 1. Fincas Mediterranes in Castelldefels (shared with Leonid Milov )
• 2005: 25th International Open in Clermont-Ferrand , 8th International Open in Saint-Affrique; International A tournament in Mundolsheim
• 2006: Grand Prix CCAS in Cap d'Agde (shared)
• 2008: 23rd International Open in Avoine ( Département Indre-et-Loire ), Kilkenny International Masters

Team championships

With the English national team, Kosten took part in the 1989 European Championship in Haifa , where he received an individual bronze medal for his score of 5 points from 7 games on the first reserve board. In 1990 he took part in the 1st VISA Chess Summits for England. England came in second.

In the British 4NCL Kosten played for Slough from 1995 to 2001 , since then for Guildford A&DC ; he won these in 1996 , 1999 and 2000 , 2004 , 2007 , 2008 and 2013 . He won the French team championship in the 2001/02 season with CEMC Monaco , for which he played until 2006. He then played for Marseille Duchamps and Montpellier Échecs , from the 2011/12 season to the 2013/14 season he played for the Club de Bischwiller . In 2018 and 2019, Kosten played again with CEMC Moncaco in the top 12. In the German Bundesliga he played with TSV Schott Mainz in the 2000/01 season . In Austria he played from 2002 to 2004 for SV Frohnleiten and from 2004 to 2010 for Holz Dohr-Semriach , who had taken over the starting right of SV Frohnleiten. In the 2007/08 Austrian season he had the most points of all the players in the league with nine (ahead of Rainer Buhmann from SK Maria Saal with 8.5). In the Swiss National League A (chess) he played for Lausanne Le Joueur in the 2006 season . He has also been active in the Hungarian and Basque (for Oaso XT ) team championships.

Fonts

• 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 Defense . 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 . (in cooperation with Richard Palliser and James Vigus)

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Anthony Kosten on 365Chess.com (English)
• Literature by and about Anthony costs in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 3rd Open Cappelle-la-Grande 1987 (French)
2. ↑ Article on chessbase.de about the Austrian season 2007/08 from March 18, 2008