Alexandra Kosteniuk

Alexandra Kosteniuk

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

Notable games

• 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

• 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

1. Russian: Александра Константиновна Костенюк
2. "ChessBase News". Archived from the original on 2010-04-02. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
3. FIDE top 100 women

• Kosteniuk, Alexandra (2001). How I became a grandmaster at age 14. Moscow. ISBN 5-8293-0043-5.