In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Konstantinovna and the family name is Kosteniuk.
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Kosteniuk at the Women's European Team Championship, Warsaw 2013
Full name
Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk
Country
Russia (before 2022) FIDE (2022–2023)[a] Switzerland (since 2023)[3]
Born
(1984-04-23) 23 April 1984 (age 40) Perm, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title
Grandmaster (2004)
Women's World Champion
2008–10
FIDE rating
2501 (May 2024)
Peak rating
2561 (January 2018)
Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (Russian: Алекса́ндра Константи́новна Костеню́к; born 23 April 1984) is a Russian and Swiss[4] chess grandmaster who was the Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010 and Women's World Rapid Chess Champion in 2021. She was European women's champion in 2004 and a two-time Russian Women's Chess Champion (in 2005 and 2016). 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;[5] 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.
^Russian Grandmasters Leave Russia: 'I Have No Sympathy For This War', chess.com, 1 May 2022
^FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
^"Transfers in 2023". FIDE. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
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^McGourty, Colin (2017-06-28). "Flawless China retain World Team Championship". chess24.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-22. Retrieved 2017-09-21.
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