Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (born April 23, 1984 , Perm ) is a Russian chess player , grandmaster ( 2004 ), and the twelfth world chess champion (from September 2008 to December 2010 ). Two-time champion of Russia (2005, 2016). European Champion ( 2004 ). Champion of Switzerland (2011). Three-time winner of the chess Olympiad ( 2010 , 2012 , 2014 ) and five-time winner of the European Team Championship (2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017 [1] ) as part of the Russian team. Vice World Champion in Rapid Chess ( 2012 ). Two-time world champion in Fisher Chess ( 2006 , 2008 ). European Blitz Champion ( 2017 ) [2] . Member of the United Russia party since 2009 [3] .
 Alexandra Kosteniuk | ||
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| Country |  Russia  Switzerland | |
| Date of Birth | April 23 1984 (35 years old) | |
| Place of Birth | Perm , RSFSR , USSR | |
| Rank | grandmaster ( 2004 ) international master ( 2000 ) ---- grandmaster ( 1998 ) among women international master ( 1997 ) among women, world chess champion among women ( 2008 - 2010 ) | |
| Maximum rating | 2557 (April 2016) | |
| Actual Rating | 2507 (August 2019 ) | |
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| Personal card on the FIDE website Personal card on the RCF website Personal card on the Chess DB website | ||
| Official site | ||
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Biography
She was born on April 23, 1984 in Perm , in 1985 she moved to Moscow with her parents, and at the age of seven she became the champion of the capital. In 2003 she graduated from the Russian State University of Physical Education and Sports .
In 2011, Alexandra Kosteniuk entered the first year of the master's program at the Moscow State Academy of Physical Culture under the main educational program “Concepts and Technologies of Intellectual Games”.
She wrote a book about her formation, “How to Become a Grandmaster at 14,” with her father in two years. The book was published in Russian, English and Spanish.
Family
Father, Honored Trainer of Russia [4] Konstantin Kosteniuk , is her coach. There is a younger sister Oksana, also a chess player.
Alexandra Kostenyuk is married to Russian grandmaster Pavel Tregubov . Former husband - businessman Diego Garces, has a daughter from his first marriage [5] .
Career
She learned to play chess at the age of five thanks to her father.
Vice-world champion in women's chess in 2001 . European Women's Chess Champion in 2004 ( Dresden , Germany ). 2005 Russian chess champion among women. In August 2006, Alexandra became the first world champion in random chess , winning 5½-2½ against Elizabeth Petz . She successfully defended her title in 2008 , defeating Catherine Lagno 2½-1½. The highest achievement in Alexandra’s career is to win the women's world chess champion on September 18, 2008 at a tournament in Nalchik , where she defeated Chinese woman Hou Yifan with a score of 2½-1½.
In November 2004, Alexandra Kosteniuk became the 10th woman in the world to be awarded the title of international grandmaster among men. Prior to that, at the age of 14 she had achieved the title of grandmaster among women (one of the youngest in the world) and an international master.
Having, in addition to Russian citizenship, also Swiss [6] , he has the opportunity to play in the Swiss chess championship. In 2011, she won the Swiss Women's Championship, in 2012 she won third place in the men's championship [7] , and in 2013, for the first time in the history of Switzerland, she became the absolute champion, gaining 6.5 points out of 9 and beating Swiss Ralph in a tie-break Buss with the score 2: 0 [8] .
In 2016, Alexandra Kosteniuk again became the champion of Russia, having won the Super Final of the 66th national championship.
Alexandra's motto is: “Chess is great” and “Beauty and mind are inseparable.” Guided by them, she promotes chess, while still being a model and “ambassador of chess”, trying to spark interest in this game all over the world. In 2006, her photographs appeared in the men's magazine " Penthouse " [9] . She played one of the roles in the film " Bless the Woman " by Stanislav Govorukhin . He is the author of the books “How to Become a Grandmaster at the Age of 14”, “Play Chess with Alexandra Kosteniuk” and “Diaries of the Chess Queen”. Alexandra is the host of the Chess is Cool podcast , which informs users about her life and current chess events. The chess player has a positive attitude to sports activities, runs cross-country runs regularly and takes part in marathons.
Rewards
- Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland Order, 1st degree ( October 25, 2014 ) - for his great contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, high sports achievements at the XXXXI World Chess Olympiad in Tromsø (Norway) [10]
Books
- How to become a grandmaster at age 14. Moscow, 2001. 202, [2] p., [16] p. silt ISBN 5-89069-053-1 .
- How to teach chess: preschool chess textbook / Alexandra Kostenyuk, Nataliya Kostenyuk. Moscow: Russian Chess House, 2008.142 s. ISBN 978-5-94693-085-7 .
- Chess Queen Diaries. Moscow, 2009. ISBN 978-5-91148-012-7 .
Filmography
2003 Bless the woman - Vera (daughter of Masha)
Notes
- ↑ Results of the 2017 European Women's Team Championship .
- ↑ Results of the individual European blitz championship for women 2017. .
- ↑ World Champion Kosteniuk joined the United Russia party . Championat.com (May 20, 2009). Date of treatment December 23, 2013. Archived December 23, 2013.
- ↑ Order on conferring the honorary sports title “Honored Coach of Russia” No. 9-ng dated February 9, 2010 (inaccessible link) Date of treatment March 6, 2010. Archived February 18, 2010.
- ↑ E. Geek . Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk and her entire family // Science and Life
- ↑ Alexandra Kosteniuk: “We must not forget that Ilyumzhinov did a lot for chess” // Chess-News. - 07.17.2013.
- ↑ Kosteniuk became the bronze medalist of the Swiss Men's Chess Championship // NESWru.com. - 07/21/2012.
- ↑ Alexandra Kosteniuk won the men's Swiss championship // Russian Chess Federation. - 07/19/2013.
- ↑ Alexandrov, Andrey. Grandmaster starred in the style of Penthouse . Utro.ru (May 18, 2006). Date of treatment December 23, 2013. Archived December 19, 2009.
- ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of October 25, 2014 No. 680 “On Awarding with State Prizes of the Russian Federation”
Links
- Alexandra Kosteniuk's personal card on the FIDE website
- Personal card of Alexandra Kostenyuk on the RCF website
- Alexandra Kosteniuk games in the database
- Alexandra Kosteniuk's personal card on 365chess.com
- Profile of Alexandra Kosteniuk on Chess.com ( game statistics )
- Speeches by Alexandra Kosteniuk at the Women's Chess Olympiads
- Speeches by Alexandra Kosteniuk at the women's team world championships
- Speeches by Alexandra Kosteniuk at the European Team Championships among women
- Information about yourself from the official site
- "Queen's move . " Rossiyskaya Gazeta No. 202 (4759) 09/25/08
- Alexandra Kosteniuk: “Beautiful people play chess!” (Interview. Sport-Express. 2008. Sep 19)
- Interview on ChessPro website
- Official website of Alexandra Kosteniuk
- Biographical essay in the magazine " Intellectual Games "
- Women need their Oscars . Interview on ChessPro.ru
- Alexandra Kosteniuk: “The main task is to raise a person who thinks . ” Exclusive Interview for Our Newspaper (Switzerland)