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Alexandra Kosteniuk was born on 23 April, 1984 in Perm, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, is a Russian-Swiss chess grandmaster (born 1984). Discover Alexandra Kosteniuk's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 39 years old?

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Age 39 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 23 April, 1984
Birthday 23 April
Birthplace Perm, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality Russia

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1984

Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (Алекса́ндра Константи́новна Костеню́к; born 23 April 1984) is a Russian and Swiss chess grandmaster who was the Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010 and Women's World Rapid Chess Champion in 2021.

1998

Before that, she had also obtained the titles of Woman Grandmaster in 1998 and International Master in 2000.

Kosteniuk won the Russian Women's Championship.

In August, she became the first Chess960 women's world champion after beating Germany's top female player Elisabeth Pähtz by 5½–2½.

2001

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

Kosteniuk became European women's champion by winning the tournament in Dresden, Germany.

As she achieved this with a performance rating above 2600, she was awarded the grandmaster title in November 2004, becoming the tenth woman to receive the highest title of the World Chess Federation (FIDE).

2003

She graduated in 2003 from the Russian State Academy of Physical Education in Moscow as a certified professional chess trainer.

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

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.

2004

She was European women's champion in 2004 and a two-time Russian Women's Chess Champion (in 2005 and 2016).

2008

She defended that title successfully in 2008 by beating Kateryna Lahno 2½–1½.

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.

Later in the same year, she won the women's individual blitz event of the 2008 World Mind Sports Games in Beijing.

2010

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; 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.

Kosteniuk learned to play chess at the age of five after being taught by her father.

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

In 2013, Kosteniuk became the first woman to win the men's (i.e. universal) Swiss Chess Championship.

She also won the women Swiss champion title.

2014

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.

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.

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.

She also placed second behind IM Bibisara Assaubayeva in the blitz championship.

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

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.

2015

In 2015 Kosteniuk won the European–ACP Women's Rapid Championship in Kutaisi.

In July of the same year, she lost the Swiss championship playoff to Vadim Milov, and was declared women's Swiss champion.

Kosteniuk again won the Russian Women's Championship.

2017

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

2019

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.

Kosteniuk dominated the match and won with an overall score of 20–8.

In late November, Kosteniuk won the European Women's rapid and blitz championships in Monaco.

In December, she shared first place in the second leg of FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019–20 in Monaco.

In December she also achieved 2nd place in the Belt and Road World Chess Woman Summit, behind Hou Yifan.

2020

In August 2020, Alexandra was part of the Russian team which shared the gold medal with India in the Online Chess Olympiad.

She was unhappy with this result and has also tweeted regarding this issue, drawing criticism from many chess followers.

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.