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Alexandra Kosteniuk

April 26, 2024

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Konstantinovna and the family name is Kosteniuk.

Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (Russian: Алекса́ндра Константи́новна Костеню́к; born 23 April 1984) is a Russian and Swiss[4] chess grandmaster who 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;[5] 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.

Alexandra Kosteniuk
Kosteniuk at the Women's European Team Championship, Warsaw 2013
Full nameAlexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk
CountryRussia (before 2022)
FIDE (2022–2023)[a]
Switzerland (since 2023)[3]
Born (1984-04-23) 23 April 1984 (age 40)
Perm, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (2004)
Women's World Champion2008–10
FIDE rating2501 (April 2024)
Peak rating2561 (January 2018)

Chess career edit

Kosteniuk learned to play chess at the age of five after being taught by her father. She graduated in 2003 from the Russian State Academy of Physical Education in Moscow as a certified professional chess trainer.[6]

1994 edit

Kosteniuk won the girls under 10 division of the European Youth Chess Championship.

1996 edit

Kosteniuk won the girls under 12 title at both the European Youth Championships and World Youth Chess Championships. At twelve years old she also became the Russian women's champion in rapid chess.[7]

2001 edit

 
Kosteniuk at the 35th Chess Olympiad, Bled 2002

In 2001, at the age of 17, she reached the final of the World Women's Chess Championship won by Zhu Chen.

2001-2004 edit

Kosteniuk became European women's champion by winning the tournament in Dresden, Germany.[8] As she achieved this with a performance rating above 2600,[9][10] she was awarded the grandmaster title in November 2004, becoming the tenth woman to receive the highest title of the World Chess Federation (FIDE). Before that, she had also obtained the titles of Woman Grandmaster in 1998 and International Master in 2000.[11]

2005 edit

Kosteniuk won the Russian Women's Championship.[12]

2006-2008 edit

In August, she became the first Chess960 women's world champion after beating Germany's top female player Elisabeth Pähtz by 5½–2½. She defended that title successfully in 2008 by beating Kateryna Lahno 2½–1½.[13] However, Kosteniuk's greatest success so far has been to win the Women's World Chess Championship 2008, beating in the final the young Chinese prodigy Hou Yifan with a score of 2½–1½.[14][15] Later in the same year, she won the women's individual blitz event of the 2008 World Mind Sports Games in Beijing.[16]

2010 edit

In the Women's World Chess Championship 2010 Kosteniuk was eliminated in the third round by the eventual runner-up, Ruan Lufei, and thus lost her title.

2013 edit

In 2013, Kosteniuk became the first woman to win the men's (i.e. universal) Swiss Chess Championship.[4] She also won the women Swiss champion title.

2014 edit

In 2014, she tied for first place with Kateryna Lagno in the Women's World Rapid Championship, which was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, and took the silver medal on tiebreak, as Lagno won the direct encounter.[17]

2015 edit

In 2015 Kosteniuk won the European–ACP Women's Rapid Championship in Kutaisi.[18] In July of the same year, she lost the Swiss championship playoff to Vadim Milov, and was declared women's Swiss champion.[19]

2016 edit

Kosteniuk again won the Russian Women's Championship.[12]

2017 edit

In 2017 she won the European ACP Women's Blitz Championship in Monte Carlo.[20]

2019 edit

In late May, Alexandra faced Ukrainian-American International Master Anna Zatonskih in the quarterfinal match of the 2019 Women's Speed Chess Championship, an online blitz and bullet competition hosted by Chess.com.[21] Kosteniuk dominated the match and won with an overall score of 20–8.[22] In late November, Kosteniuk won the European Women's rapid and blitz championships in Monaco.[23][24] In December, she shared first place in the second leg of FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019–20 in Monaco.[25] In December she also achieved 2nd place in the Belt and Road World Chess Woman Summit, behind Hou Yifan.[26]

2020 edit

In August 2020, Alexandra was part of the Russian team which shared the gold medal with India in the Online Chess Olympiad.[27] She was unhappy with this result and has also tweeted regarding this issue, drawing criticism from many chess followers.[28]

2021 edit

In July and August 2021, Kosteniuk participated in the inaugural Women's Chess World Cup, a 103-player knockout tournament in Sochi, Russia, held in parallel with the open Chess World Cup. Seeded 14th in the tournament, she won all of her classical matches without ever needing to play a tiebreak, defeating Deysi Cori, Pia Cramling, Mariya Muzychuk, Valentina Gunina and Tan Zhongyi, before winning the tournament with a 1.5 - 0.5 score against top seed Aleksandra Goryachkina in the finals. In addition to $50,000 in prize money, she also gained 43 rating points and a place in the Women's Candidates Tournament 2022.[29]

Kosteniuk ended the year by winning the women's world rapid championship in Warsaw, with an undefeated and unequalled 9.0 out of 11 score. [30] She also placed second behind IM Bibisara Assaubayeva in the blitz championship.

Other activities edit

Kosteniuk worked as a model and also acted in the film Bless the Woman by Stanislav Govorukhin.[8][31]

Kosteniuk is a member of the "Champions for Peace" club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization.[32][33]

Together with 43 other Russian elite chess players, Kosteniuk signed an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin protesting against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[34]

Personal life edit

Born in Perm, Kosteniuk moved to Moscow in 1985.[8] She has a younger sister named Oksana, who is a Woman FIDE Master-level chess player.

Kosteniuk has dual Swiss-Russian citizenship.[4] She married Swiss-born businessman Diego Garces born in 1959, who is of Colombian descent,[35] at eighteen years old. On 22 April 2007 she gave birth to a daughter, Francesca Maria. Francesca was born 2½ months premature but made a full recovery after an 8-week stay in the hospital.[36] In 2015, Kosteniuk married Russian Grandmaster Pavel Tregubov.[37]

Notable games edit

 
Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2007
  • The World vs Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2004, Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation. English Attack (B90), 0–1
  • Alexandra Kosteniuk vs Alexander Onischuk, Corus, Group B 2005, Spanish Game: Classical Variation (C65), 1–0
  • Anna Ushenina vs Alexandra Kosteniuk, WWCh. 2008, Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical, Noa Variation (E34), 0–1

Bibliography edit

  • Kosteniuk, Alexandra (2001). How I became a grandmaster at age 14. Moscow. ISBN 5829300435.
  • Как стать гроссмейстером в 14 лет. Moscow, 2001. 202, [2] с., [16] л. ил. ISBN 5-89069-053-1.
  • Как научить шахматам : дошкольный шахматный учебник / Александра Костенюк, Наталия Костенюк. Moscow : Russian Chess House, 2008. 142 с ISBN 978-5-94693-085-7.
  • Kosteniuk, Alexandra (2009). Diary of a Chess Queen. Mongoose Press. ISBN 978-0-9791482-7-9.

Notes edit

  1. ^ Several Russian players officially switched federations in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1][2]

References edit

  1. ^ Russian Grandmasters Leave Russia: 'I Have No Sympathy For This War', chess.com, 1 May 2022
  2. ^ FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
  3. ^ "Transfers in 2023". FIDE. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  4. ^ a b c . Archived from the original on 2015-08-13. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
  5. ^ McGourty, Colin (2017-06-28). "Flawless China retain World Team Championship". chess24.com. from the original on 2017-09-22. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
  6. ^ Golchian, Mohammad (April 9, 2015). "Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk". Chess.com. from the original on August 2, 2020. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  7. ^ "Alexandra Kosteniuk: "The victory was so close!"". FIDE Women World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2014. FIDE. 2014-04-24. from the original on 2016-02-25. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  8. ^ a b c "The 2004 European Women's Chess Champion". ChessBase. 2004-04-04. from the original on 2015-11-19. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
  9. ^ . web.archive.org. 2004-04-06. Archived from the original on 2004-04-06. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  10. ^ "FIDE Handbook 2003: International Title Regulations of FIDE" (PDF). Arbitri Lombardia Scacchi. (PDF) from the original on 29 December 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  11. ^ Alexandra Kosteniuk rating card at FIDE
  12. ^ a b Silver, Albert (2016-11-01). "Riazantsev and Kosteniuk are 2016 Russian champions". Chess News. ChessBase. from the original on 2017-10-02. Retrieved 2017-10-24.
  13. ^ "Mainz 2008: Kosteniuk wins Chess960, Rybka and Shredder qualify". Chess News. Aug 1, 2008. from the original on October 7, 2020. Retrieved Oct 2, 2020.
  14. ^ Alexandra Kosteniuk is Women's World Champion 2008-09-19 at the Wayback Machine ChessBase
  15. ^ The crowning of Kosteniuk as a World Champion 2017-10-18 at the Wayback Machine Chessdom
  16. ^ "Kosteniuk wins WMSG blitz title" 2015-01-24 at the Wayback Machine. Chessdom.
  17. ^ "Title: Kateryna Lagno crowned Women's World Rapid Champion". FIDE Women World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2014. FIDE. 2014-04-25. from the original on 2016-02-25. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  18. ^ "Alexandra Kosteniuk wins European-ACP Women's Rapid Championship". Chessdom. 2015-06-04. from the original on 2015-12-30. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
  19. ^ (in German). Swiss Chess Federation. 2015-07-17. Archived from the original on 19 January 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  20. ^ . FIDE. 2017-10-24. Archived from the original on 2017-10-25. Retrieved 2017-10-24.
  21. ^ "Nakamura Defeats So To Repeat As Speed Chess Champion". Chess.com. 8 April 2020. from the original on October 8, 2020. Retrieved Oct 2, 2020.
  22. ^ Doggers, Peter (27 May 2019). "Women's Speed Chess: Kosteniuk Too Strong For Zatonskih". Chess.com. from the original on 27 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  23. ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - European Women Individual Blitz Chess Championship 2019". chess-results.com. from the original on 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  24. ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - European Women Individual Rapid Chess Championship 2019". chess-results.com. from the original on 2020-01-29. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  25. ^ "Alexandra Kosteniuk wins the Monaco Women's Grand Prix". www.fide.com. from the original on 2020-02-20. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  26. ^ "The Week in Chess 1311". theweekinchess.com. from the original on 2020-10-27. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  27. ^ "India, Russia announced joint winners of Chess Olympiad after controversial finish". Aug 31, 2020. from the original on August 31, 2020. Retrieved Oct 2, 2020.
  28. ^ Kosteniuk, Alexandra [@chessqueen] (August 30, 2020). "Let's clarify one thing: India didn't win the Olympiad, but was rather named by FIDE a co-champion. imho, there is a huge difference between actually "winning" the gold or just being awarded one without winning a single game in the final #onlineolympiad" (Tweet). from the original on 2021-06-16. Retrieved 2021-08-10 – via Twitter.
  29. ^ chess24.com [@chess24com] (August 2, 2021). "Congratulations to Alexandra Kosteniuk (@chessqueen) on winning the 2021 Women's #FIDEWorldCup, earning $50k (40k after FIDE's cut) and picking up an amazing 43 rating points in the process! https://t.co/SHpthl7K4q #c24live https://t.co/gESpcdmJZ1" (Tweet). from the original on 2021-08-07. Retrieved 2021-08-10 – via Twitter.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  30. ^ "Results - Women Rapid". from the original on 2021-12-28. Retrieved 2021-12-28.
  31. ^ Alexandra Kosteniuk at IMDb
  32. ^ "The Chess Queen Becomes Champion for Peace". chessblog.com. 2010-03-03. from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  33. ^ Champions for peace 2015-11-19 at the Wayback Machine Peace and Sport
  34. ^ 'Stop the war.' 44 Top Russian Players Publish Open Letter To Putin 2022-03-07 at the Wayback Machine, March 6, 2022
  35. ^ . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved Oct 2, 2020.
  36. ^ "Francesca Maria Kosteniuk enters the world". ChessBase. 2007-06-21. from the original on 2015-11-19. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  37. ^ "Alexandra Kosteniuk Marries Pavel Tregubov". chess-news.ru. 2015-08-08. from the original on 2015-08-10. Retrieved 10 October 2015.

External links edit

 
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  • Alexandra Kosteniuk chess games at 365Chess.com
  • Alexandra Kosteniuk player profile and games at Chessgames.com
  • Alexandra Kosteniuk's chess tips – ChessKillerTips
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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs the patronymic is Konstantinovna and the family name is Kosteniuk Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk Russian Aleksa ndra Konstanti novna Kostenyu k born 23 April 1984 is a Russian and Swiss 4 chess grandmaster who 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 5 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 Alexandra KosteniukKosteniuk at the Women s European Team Championship Warsaw 2013Full nameAlexandra Konstantinovna KosteniukCountryRussia before 2022 FIDE 2022 2023 a Switzerland since 2023 3 Born 1984 04 23 23 April 1984 age 40 Perm Russian SFSR Soviet UnionTitleGrandmaster 2004 Women s World Champion2008 10FIDE rating2501 April 2024 Peak rating2561 January 2018 Contents 1 Chess career 1 1 1994 1 2 1996 1 3 2001 1 4 2001 2004 1 5 2005 1 6 2006 2008 1 7 2010 1 8 2013 1 9 2014 1 10 2015 1 11 2016 1 12 2017 1 13 2019 1 14 2020 1 15 2021 2 Other activities 3 Personal life 4 Notable games 5 Bibliography 6 Notes 7 References 8 External linksChess career editKosteniuk learned to play chess at the age of five after being taught by her father She graduated in 2003 from the Russian State Academy of Physical Education in Moscow as a certified professional chess trainer 6 1994 edit Kosteniuk won the girls under 10 division of the European Youth Chess Championship 1996 edit Kosteniuk won the girls under 12 title at both the European Youth Championships and World Youth Chess Championships At twelve years old she also became the Russian women s champion in rapid chess 7 2001 edit nbsp Kosteniuk at the 35th Chess Olympiad Bled 2002 In 2001 at the age of 17 she reached the final of the World Women s Chess Championship won by Zhu Chen 2001 2004 edit Kosteniuk became European women s champion by winning the tournament in Dresden Germany 8 As she achieved this with a performance rating above 2600 9 10 she was awarded the grandmaster title in November 2004 becoming the tenth woman to receive the highest title of the World Chess Federation FIDE Before that she had also obtained the titles of Woman Grandmaster in 1998 and International Master in 2000 11 2005 edit Kosteniuk won the Russian Women s Championship 12 2006 2008 edit In August she became the first Chess960 women s world champion after beating Germany s top female player Elisabeth Pahtz by 5 2 She defended that title successfully in 2008 by beating Kateryna Lahno 2 1 13 However Kosteniuk s greatest success so far has been to win the Women s World Chess Championship 2008 beating in the final the young Chinese prodigy Hou Yifan with a score of 2 1 14 15 Later in the same year she won the women s individual blitz event of the 2008 World Mind Sports Games in Beijing 16 2010 edit In the Women s World Chess Championship 2010 Kosteniuk was eliminated in the third round by the eventual runner up Ruan Lufei and thus lost her title 2013 edit In 2013 Kosteniuk became the first woman to win the men s i e universal Swiss Chess Championship 4 She also won the women Swiss champion title 2014 edit In 2014 she tied for first place with Kateryna Lagno in the Women s World Rapid Championship which was held in Khanty Mansiysk and took the silver medal on tiebreak as Lagno won the direct encounter 17 2015 edit In 2015 Kosteniuk won the European ACP Women s Rapid Championship in Kutaisi 18 In July of the same year she lost the Swiss championship playoff to Vadim Milov and was declared women s Swiss champion 19 2016 edit Kosteniuk again won the Russian Women s Championship 12 2017 edit In 2017 she won the European ACP Women s Blitz Championship in Monte Carlo 20 2019 edit In late May Alexandra faced Ukrainian American International Master Anna Zatonskih in the quarterfinal match of the 2019 Women s Speed Chess Championship an online blitz and bullet competition hosted by Chess com 21 Kosteniuk dominated the match and won with an overall score of 20 8 22 In late November Kosteniuk won the European Women s rapid and blitz championships in Monaco 23 24 In December she shared first place in the second leg of FIDE Women s Grand Prix 2019 20 in Monaco 25 In December she also achieved 2nd place in the Belt and Road World Chess Woman Summit behind Hou Yifan 26 2020 edit In August 2020 Alexandra was part of the Russian team which shared the gold medal with India in the Online Chess Olympiad 27 She was unhappy with this result and has also tweeted regarding this issue drawing criticism from many chess followers 28 2021 edit In July and August 2021 Kosteniuk participated in the inaugural Women s Chess World Cup a 103 player knockout tournament in Sochi Russia held in parallel with the open Chess World Cup Seeded 14th in the tournament she won all of her classical matches without ever needing to play a tiebreak defeating Deysi Cori Pia Cramling Mariya Muzychuk Valentina Gunina and Tan Zhongyi before winning the tournament with a 1 5 0 5 score against top seed Aleksandra Goryachkina in the finals In addition to 50 000 in prize money she also gained 43 rating points and a place in the Women s Candidates Tournament 2022 29 Kosteniuk ended the year by winning the women s world rapid championship in Warsaw with an undefeated and unequalled 9 0 out of 11 score 30 She also placed second behind IM Bibisara Assaubayeva in the blitz championship Other activities editKosteniuk worked as a model and also acted in the film Bless the Woman by Stanislav Govorukhin 8 31 Kosteniuk is a member of the Champions for Peace club a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport created by Peace and Sport a Monaco based international organization 32 33 Together with 43 other Russian elite chess players Kosteniuk signed an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin protesting against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine 34 Personal life editBorn in Perm Kosteniuk moved to Moscow in 1985 8 She has a younger sister named Oksana who is a Woman FIDE Master level chess player Kosteniuk has dual Swiss Russian citizenship 4 She married Swiss born businessman Diego Garces born in 1959 who is of Colombian descent 35 at eighteen years old On 22 April 2007 she gave birth to a daughter Francesca Maria Francesca was born 2 months premature but made a full recovery after an 8 week stay in the hospital 36 In 2015 Kosteniuk married Russian Grandmaster Pavel Tregubov 37 Notable games edit nbsp Alexandra Kosteniuk 2007 The World vs Alexandra Kosteniuk 2004 Sicilian Defense Najdorf Variation English Attack B90 0 1 Alexandra Kosteniuk vs Alexander Onischuk Corus Group B 2005 Spanish Game Classical Variation C65 1 0 Anna Ushenina vs Alexandra Kosteniuk WWCh 2008 Nimzo Indian Defense Classical Noa Variation E34 0 1Bibliography editKosteniuk Alexandra 2001 How I became a grandmaster at age 14 Moscow ISBN 5829300435 Kak stat grossmejsterom v 14 let Moscow 2001 202 2 s 16 l il ISBN 5 89069 053 1 Kak nauchit shahmatam doshkolnyj shahmatnyj uchebnik Aleksandra Kostenyuk Nataliya Kostenyuk Moscow Russian Chess House 2008 142 s ISBN 978 5 94693 085 7 Kosteniuk Alexandra 2009 Diary of a Chess Queen Mongoose Press ISBN 978 0 9791482 7 9 Notes edit Several Russian players officially switched federations in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine 1 2 References edit Russian Grandmasters Leave Russia I Have No Sympathy For This War chess com 1 May 2022 FIDE Condemns Military Action Takes Measures Against Russia Belarus chess com 28 February 2022 Transfers in 2023 FIDE Retrieved 3 March 2023 a b c chessqueen com Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk s Chess Blog Archived from the original on 2015 08 13 Retrieved 2014 07 31 McGourty Colin 2017 06 28 Flawless China retain World Team Championship chess24 com Archived from the original on 2017 09 22 Retrieved 2017 09 21 Golchian Mohammad April 9 2015 Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk Chess com Archived from the original on August 2 2020 Retrieved September 8 2020 Alexandra Kosteniuk The victory was so close FIDE Women World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2014 FIDE 2014 04 24 Archived from the original on 2016 02 25 Retrieved 9 January 2016 a b c The 2004 European Women s Chess Champion ChessBase 2004 04 04 Archived from the original on 2015 11 19 Retrieved 18 November 2015 Certificate of Title Result Grandmaster web archive org 2004 04 06 Archived from the original on 2004 04 06 Retrieved 2024 03 15 FIDE Handbook 2003 International Title Regulations of FIDE PDF Arbitri Lombardia Scacchi Archived PDF from the original on 29 December 2021 Retrieved 26 December 2021 Alexandra Kosteniuk rating card at FIDE a b Silver Albert 2016 11 01 Riazantsev and Kosteniuk are 2016 Russian champions Chess News ChessBase Archived from the original on 2017 10 02 Retrieved 2017 10 24 Mainz 2008 Kosteniuk wins Chess960 Rybka and Shredder qualify Chess News Aug 1 2008 Archived from the original on October 7 2020 Retrieved Oct 2 2020 Alexandra Kosteniuk is Women s World Champion Archived 2008 09 19 at the Wayback Machine ChessBase The crowning of Kosteniuk as a World Champion Archived 2017 10 18 at the Wayback Machine Chessdom Kosteniuk wins WMSG blitz title Archived 2015 01 24 at the Wayback Machine Chessdom Title Kateryna Lagno crowned Women s World Rapid Champion FIDE Women World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2014 FIDE 2014 04 25 Archived from the original on 2016 02 25 Retrieved 9 January 2016 Alexandra Kosteniuk wins European ACP Women s Rapid Championship Chessdom 2015 06 04 Archived from the original on 2015 12 30 Retrieved 18 November 2015 Abschluss der SEM in Leukerbad Erster Titel fur GM Vadim Milov in German Swiss Chess Federation 2015 07 17 Archived from the original on 19 January 2016 Retrieved 4 January 2016 Anna Muzychuk amp Alexandra Kosteniuk won the European ACP Women s Rapid amp Blitz Chess Championship FIDE 2017 10 24 Archived from the original on 2017 10 25 Retrieved 2017 10 24 Nakamura Defeats So To Repeat As Speed Chess Champion Chess com 8 April 2020 Archived from the original on October 8 2020 Retrieved Oct 2 2020 Doggers Peter 27 May 2019 Women s Speed Chess Kosteniuk Too Strong For Zatonskih Chess com Archived from the original on 27 May 2019 Retrieved 27 May 2019 Chess Results Server Chess results com European Women Individual Blitz Chess Championship 2019 chess results com Archived from the original on 2021 02 25 Retrieved 2020 02 20 Chess Results Server Chess results com European Women Individual Rapid Chess Championship 2019 chess results com Archived from the original on 2020 01 29 Retrieved 2020 02 20 Alexandra Kosteniuk wins the Monaco Women s Grand Prix www fide com Archived from the original on 2020 02 20 Retrieved 2020 02 20 The Week in Chess 1311 theweekinchess com Archived from the original on 2020 10 27 Retrieved 2020 07 09 India Russia announced joint winners of Chess Olympiad after controversial finish Aug 31 2020 Archived from the original on August 31 2020 Retrieved Oct 2 2020 Kosteniuk Alexandra chessqueen August 30 2020 Let s clarify one thing India didn t win the Olympiad but was rather named by FIDE a co champion imho there is a huge difference between actually winning the gold or just being awarded one without winning a single game in the final onlineolympiad Tweet Archived from the original on 2021 06 16 Retrieved 2021 08 10 via Twitter chess24 com chess24com August 2 2021 Congratulations to Alexandra Kosteniuk chessqueen on winning the 2021 Women s FIDEWorldCup earning 50k 40k after FIDE s cut and picking up an amazing 43 rating points in the process https t co SHpthl7K4q c24live https t co gESpcdmJZ1 Tweet Archived from the original on 2021 08 07 Retrieved 2021 08 10 via Twitter a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint numeric names authors list link Results Women Rapid Archived from the original on 2021 12 28 Retrieved 2021 12 28 Alexandra Kosteniuk at IMDb The Chess Queen Becomes Champion for Peace chessblog com 2010 03 03 Archived from the original on 2015 09 24 Retrieved 10 October 2015 Champions for peace Archived 2015 11 19 at the Wayback Machine Peace and Sport Stop the war 44 Top Russian Players Publish Open Letter To Putin Archived 2022 03 07 at the Wayback Machine March 6 2022 Various photos of Frascati Archived from the original on March 4 2016 Retrieved Oct 2 2020 Francesca Maria Kosteniuk enters the world ChessBase 2007 06 21 Archived from the original on 2015 11 19 Retrieved 10 October 2015 Alexandra Kosteniuk Marries Pavel Tregubov chess news ru 2015 08 08 Archived from the original on 2015 08 10 Retrieved 10 October 2015 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alexandra Kosteniuk Official website nbsp Chessqueen Alexandra Kosteniuk s chess blog Alexandra Kosteniuk rating card at FIDE nbsp Alexandra Kosteniuk chess games at 365Chess com Alexandra Kosteniuk player profile and games at Chessgames com Alexandra Kosteniuk s chess tips ChessKillerTips Interview with Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk on LatestChess site Preceded byXu Yuhua Women s World Chess Champion2008 2010 Succeeded byHou Yifan Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Alexandra Kosteniuk amp oldid 1214749094, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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