Alexandra Kosteniuk
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Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (born 23 April 1984) is a Russian chess grandmaster and Women's World Chess champion who competed from 2008 to 2010.
She was Europe women's champion in 2004 and a two-time Russian Women's Chess Champion (in 2005 and 2016).
Kosteniuk won the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012 and 2014, as well as the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2017.
Personal life
Born in Perm, Kosteniuk moved to Moscow in 1985. Oksana, she has a younger sister who is a Woman FIDE Master-level chess player, has a sister named Oksana.
Kosteniuk has dual Swiss-Russian citizenship. At eighteen years old, she married Diego Garces, a Swiss-born man of Colombian descent. Francesca Maria, her daughter, gave birth to her daughter on April 22, 2007 in Zagreb. Francesca was born 21 months premature but made a complete recovery after an 8-week stay in the hospital. Kosteniuk married Russian Grandmaster Pavel Trebov in 2015.
Chess career
After being taught by her father, Kosteniuk learned to play chess at the age of five. She graduated from the Russian State Academy of Physical Education in Moscow in 2003 as a licensed professional chess coach.
Alexandra took home the European Youth Chess Championship's girls under the age of ten.
At both the European Youth Championships and World Youth Chess Championships, Alexandra triumphed in the girls under the age of 12. She rose to the Russian women's champion in rapid chess at twelve years old.
She reached the final of the World Women's Chess Championship in 2001 at the age of 17, but Zhu Chen defeated her.
Kosteniuk won the tournament in Dresden, Germany, making her European women's champion. As she did this with a result over 2600, she was given the grandmaster title in November 2004, becoming the tenth woman to be awarded the highest accolade of the World Chess Federation. She had also obtained the titles of Woman Grandmaster in 1998 and International Master in 2000 before that.
Kosteniuk took home the Russian Women's Championship.
After defeating Germany's top female player Elisabeth Pähtz by 512–212, she became the first Chess960 women's world champion in August. She defended her title in 2008 by defeating Kateryna Lahno 2112–112 points. Nevertheless, her best result so far has been to win the Women's World Chess Championship 2008, defeating Hou Yifan in the final, scoring 2112–112 points. She won the women's individual blitz event of the 2008 World Mind Sports Games in Beijing later this year.
She was disqualified in the third round by Ruan Lufei, the eventual runner-up, and so lost her honor.
Kosteniuk won the men's Swiss Chess Championship for the first time in 2013. She has also won the Swiss champions' title.
In 2014, she tied for first place with Kateryna Lagno in the Women's World Rapid Championship, which was held in Khanty-Mansiysk and earned the silver medal on tiebreak as Lagno won the direct encounter.
Kosteniuk also won the European-ACP Women's Rapid Championship in Kutaisi in 2015. In July of the same year, she lost the Swiss championship playoff to Vadim Milov and was named the women's Swiss champion.
Kosteniuk defeated the Russian Women's Championship once more.
In 2017, she captured the European ACP Women's Blitz Championship in Monte Carlo.
Alexandra defeated Ukrainian-American International Master Anna Zatonskih in the quarterfinal match of the 2019 Women's Speed Chess Championship, an online blitz and bullet tournament hosted by Chess.com in late May. Kosteniuk dominated the match and won with a 20–8 overall score. Kosteniuk emerged champion of the European Women's rapid and blitz championships in Monaco in late November. In December, she took first place in the second leg of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019-2020 in Monaco. She also took second place in the Belt and Road World Chess Woman Summit in December, behind Hou Yifan.
Alexandra was a member of the Russian team who shared the gold medal with India in the Online Chess Olympiad in August 2020. She was dissatisfied with the results and has also tweeted about this topic, attracting a lot of chess followers.
Kosteniuk competed in the inaugural Women's Chess World Cup in Sochi, Russia, between the open Chess World Cup and the open Chess World Cup in July and August 2021. Despite being seeded 14th in the tournament, she won all of her classical matches without ever having to play a tiebreak, including Deysi Cori, Pia Cramling, Mariya Muzychuk, Valentina Gunina, and Tan Zhongyi before winning the tournament with a 1.5-0.5 score over top seed Aleksandra Goryachenko in the finals. She also gained 43 rating points and a spot in the Women's Candidates Tournament 2022, in addition to $50,000 in prize money.
Kosteniuk came to an end this year by winning the women's world rapid championship in Warsaw, with an undefeated and unequal 9.0 out of 11 score. In the blitz championship, she came in second, second behind IM Bibisara Assaubayeva.