Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniukv biography
Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk, (born April 23, 1984, Perm, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Russian chess participant who was the ladies’s world champion (2008–2010).
Like most elite chess gamers, Kosteniuk realized the sport at a younger age; her father give up his job to start educating her full-time when she was 5 years previous. In 1994 Kosteniuk gained the lady’s under-10 part of the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) European Youth Chess Championship, held in Băile Herculane, Rom., and completed second within the lady’s under-10 part of the FIDE World Youth Chess Festival for Peace, held in Szeged, Hung. In 1996 she gained the lady’s under-12 part of the FIDE World Youth Chess Festival for Peace, held in Cala Galdana, Minorca. She earned the Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1997 and the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title in 1998.
Kosteniuk misplaced to Zhu Chen of China within the ultimate match of the 2002 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship, a “knockout” match that was held in Moscow. In 2004 Kosteniuk gained the FIDE Women’s European Chess Championship, held in Dresden, Ger., which earned her the (males’s) International Grandmaster (GM) title. In 2005 she gained the FIDE Women’s Russian Chess Championship, held in Samara, Russia. In 2006 Kosteniuk grew to become the primary girl champion of chess960 (often known as Fischer chess as a result of it was invented by the American Bobby Fischer, former world chess champion), a recreation wherein the chess items are shuffled alongside every participant’s again rank (with sure restrictions) earlier than play begins. Kosteniuk gained the 2008 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship, held in Nalchik, Russia, by defeating Hou Yifan of China within the ultimate match with a rating of 1 win, 3 attracts, and 0 losses. She was eradicated within the third spherical of the 2010 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship, held in Antioch, Tur., ending her reign.
Kosteniuk described her chess training in How I Became Grandmaster at Age 14 (2001) and a plan for chess enchancment in Play Like Kosteniuk (2007). She additionally wrote an autobiography, Diary of a Chess Queen (2010). In addition, she produced varied educational chess DVDs and in 2005 started publishing a podcast referred to as Chess Is Cool. Kosteniuk graduated from the Russian State Academy of Physical Education in 2003 as a licensed skilled chess coach.
In addition to chess, Kosteniuk labored as a vogue mannequin and had a supporting function in a Russian movie, Blagoslovite zhenshinu (2003; “Bless the Woman”). She married Diego Garces of Switzerland in 2002, and their daughter, Francesca Maria Garces, was born in 2007.