Alexandra Kosteniuk
Russian and Swiss chess player
Alexandra Kosteniuk[1] (born Perm, Volga, 23 April 1984) is a Russian chess Grandmaster and former Women's World Chess Champion. She lost her title in 2010.[2]
Alexandra is married, and lives with her husband and daughter in Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida.
Kosteniuk is now ranked 31st in the current FIDE rating list for women.[3] She is no longer playing regularly. The highest rated woman, Judit Polgar (Hungary), never plays in female events. The second highest rated woman is Humpy Koneru (India); she has never won the women's world championship.
Some data
changeNotable games
change- 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
Other websites
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alexandra Kosteniuk.
- Interview with Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk on LatestChess site Archived 2008-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
- Photo collection of Kosteniuk Archived 2013-04-19 at Archive.today
- ChessBase: Alexandra Kosteniuk is Women's World Champion
- The crowning of Kosteniuk as a World Champion Archived 2017-10-18 at the Wayback Machine
References
change- ↑ Russian: Александра Константиновна Костенюк
- ↑ "ChessBase News". Archived from the original on 2010-04-02. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
- ↑ FIDE top 100 women
- Kosteniuk, Alexandra (2001). How I became a grandmaster at age 14. Moscow. ISBN 5-8293-0043-5.