Great Woman | Alexandra Kosteniuk, the Women’s World Chess Grandmaster

Great Woman Article. Alexandra Kosteniuk is the great and smart woman with so many achievements.  She is the Russian chess Grandmaster and she is also the current Women’s World Chess Champion.

Alexandra Kosteniuk was born in April 23, 1984 in Perm, Volga Federal District, Russia. Alexandra Kosteniuk is the Grandmaster of Women’s World Champion 2008 until present.  Her FIDE rating is 2525.  She is in the number 8 on the October 2008 FIDE rating list for women.  Her peak rating in April 2006 was 2540.

She started to learn and play chess at the age of five after being taught by her father. She has a little sister named Oxana, who is a master level chess player.

Alexandra Kosteniuk is a talented woman with so many achievements.  Here are the lists of her achievements:

• In 2001, she reached the final of the World Women’s Chess Championship, but was defeated by Zhu Chen.
• In 2004, she became female European champion by winning the tournament in Dresden, Germany.
• In 2005, she won Russian Women’s Championship, held in Samara, Russia,
• In August 2006, she became the first Chess960 (Fischer random) women world champion after beating Germany’s top female player Elisabeth Pähtz
• In 2008, She defended that title successfully by beating Kateryna Lahno
• In 2008,  she win the Women’s World Chess Championship 2008, beating in the final the young Chinese prodigy Hou Yifan
• In November 2004, she was awarded the International Grandmaster title, becoming the tenth woman to receive the highest title of the World Chess Federation, FIDE.
• In 2008, she had also obtained the titles of Woman Grandmaster and International Master.
• She is 10th on the July 2008 FIDE women Elo rating list with a rating of 2510.

Isn’t she’s great?  Do you want to know what her motto are?  Okay, Alexandra Kosteniuk has two motto.  They are :

1.    “chess is cool”
2.    “beauty and intelligence can go together”.

Alexandra Kosteniuk is not only great on chess.  She is is also the host of a popular podcast “Chess is Cool” which informs listeners about Alexandra’s life and current chess events.

So, do you want to be a great woman like Alexandra Kosteniuk?

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