Alexandra Konstantinovna Kostenyuk

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Alexandra Kostenjuk 2013
Surname Alexandra Konstantinovna Kostenyuk
Association RussiaRussia Russia
Born April 23, 1984
Perm
title International Master of Women (1997)
Grand Master of Women (1998)
International Master (2000)
Grand Master (2004)
world champion 2008-2010
Current  Elo rating 2471 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2561 (January 2018)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alexandra Konstantinovna Kostenjuk ( Russian Александра Константиновна Костенюк ; born April 23, 1984 in Perm ) is a Russian chess player . From 2008 to 2010 she was the twelfth world chess champion . In 2004 she won the Grand Master's title (GM). In July 2012, she was named the Honored Master of Sports of Russia.

Chess career

She lived in Moscow from the age of two . At the age of five she learned to play chess from her father Konstantin Vladimirovich. Alexandra Kostenjuk made rapid progress. She celebrated her first successes in junior tournaments. In 1994 she won the first European title among girls under 10 in Romania . A month later, she finished second in the Under-10 World Cup. She later won corresponding titles, for example in 1996 she became world champion for girls under 12 years of age .

Alexandra Kostenjuk, EuroChess 2007

In 1997, at the age of 13, she received the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). In February 1998, at the age of 13 years and ten months, she achieved all the necessary standards for the title of Women's Grand Master (WGM), which was only awarded to her in November 1998 at the FIDE Congress at the 33rd Chess Olympiad in Elista . In 2000 she became an International Master (IM). The title of Grand Master (GM) was awarded to Kostenjuk in 2004 after winning the European women's individual championship in Dresden .

At the Chess Classic in Mainz in 2002, Kostenjuk played a rapid chess match against Elisabeth Pähtz , which she won 6: 5. Further steps in her career were winning the 2004 European Women's Championship and the 2005 Russian Women's Championship.

In September 2005 she won the Golden Blitz blitz tournament in Moscow in the final against Almira Scripcenco . In a rapid chess tournament at Villandry Castle on October 21, 2007, Kostenjuk won a game against Laurent Fressinet after 237 moves, which is a record for the longest decided game.

The Swiss champions 2013

As world champion, Kostenjuk was qualified for the 2009 World Chess Cup , but was defeated 0: 2 in the first round by Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov .

Since she was married to a Swiss citizen, Kostenjuk also has a Swiss passport.

In July 2010 she took part in the Swiss national championship and came fourth. She won the Swiss individual championship for women in 2011. At the Swiss individual championship in 2013 in Grächen , Alexandra Kosteniuk became the first woman to become Swiss champion. In October 2016, Kostenyuk won the Russian women's championship for the second time.

World chess champion

Alexandra Kostenjuk made an early attempt to achieve the title of world chess champion. At the 2001 World Cup, Kostenjuk was in the final for the first time, but lost the match against Zhu Chen after a tie-break with 5: 3. At the 2004 Women's World Cup in Elista , however, Kostenjuk failed in the second round to Viktorija Čmilytė . Her career finally peaked in September 2008. At the World Cup in Nalchik , she won the title with a 2½: 1½ in the final against Hou Yifan . In the semifinals, Kostenjuk had prevailed against Pia Cramling . Also in 2006 and 2008, she won in Mainz Chess960 - Women's World Cup . At the 2010 Women's World Cup in Antakya , she was eliminated in the third round against future finalist Ruan Lufei . Her successor was 16-year-old Hou Yifan.

Author and chess trainer

In parallel to practical chess, Kostenjuk concentrated on writing chess books and working as a trainer . Her first, partly autobiographical work How I became Grandmaster at age 14 was published in 2001 and has now appeared in three languages ​​(Russian, English and Spanish). In this textbook, she also reports on how she learned to play chess herself.

In July 2003 she graduated from the University of Sports and has been a certified chess trainer ever since. In 2007 her second book, Play like a champion, was published .

She runs a chess podcast under Chess is Cool .

Private

Alexandra Kostenjuk was married to her manager Juan Diego Garces Montoya (* 1959) and had a daughter in 2007. In 2015 she married the Russian chess grandmaster Pavel Tregubov . Her younger sister Oksana (* 1987) is also a chess player. Besides chess, she pursues other interests, including poetry and sports. Her tendency to repeatedly advertise herself and the sport of chess as a photo model attracted particular attention . Her motto is “beauty and intelligence can go together”.

National team

Alexandra Kostenjuk took part in eight women's chess Olympiads , namely in 1998 (in the third team), 2002 , 2004 , 2006 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 , 2014 . She won this with the Russian women's team in 2010, 2012 and 2014 and also achieved the best individual result on the third board in 2014. She also took part in the Women's Team World Championships in 2011, 2013 and 2015 and the European Women's Team Championships in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 , 2013 and 2015. She won them with Russia in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2015, and won in 2003 on Reserve board, in 2009 on the first board, in 2011 on the fourth board and in 2013 on the second board, the individual scoring.

societies

For OSG Baden-Baden at the 2017 Bundesliga finals in Berlin

In the Swiss National League A , Kostenjuk played for SK Trubschachen in the 2014 season , and in the 2016 season she played for the master chess company Zurich . In the British Four Nations Chess League she played in the 2003/04 season for Numerica 3Cs , in the Dutch Meester class in the 2004/05 season for Hotels.nl/Groningen . Kostenjuk won the German women's Bundesliga in 2005 with the OSC Baden-Baden , in 2016 and 2018 with the OSG Baden-Baden. In France, Kostenjuk has been registered for Clichy Echecs 92 since the 2014/15 season and won the French team championship with them in 2017 and the French women's team championship in 2018 , in Belgium she has been playing for Cercle d'Échecs Fontainois since the 2015/16 season . Between 2003 and 2015 she took part in the women's European Club Cup seven times and won it in 2003 with the ŠK Internet-CG Podgorica . She won individual gold medals in 2012 on the first board and in 2014 and 2015 on the second board of SHSM Nashe Nasledie . Kostenjuk won the Chinese team championship in 2019 with China Mobil Shanghai .

Works

  • How I Became Grandmaster at 14 . Moscow 2001, ISBN 978-5-829300432 .
    • (in the original) Как стать гроссмейстером в 14 лет . Moscow 2001, ISBN 5-89069-053-1 .
  • with Natalia Kosteniuk: Как научить шахматам: дошкольный шахматный учебник . Russian Chess House 2008, ISBN 978-5-94693-085-7 .
  • Diary of a Chess Queen . Mongoose Press 2010, ISBN 978-0-979148279 .

Web links

Commons : Alexandra Kostenjuk  - Collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ European champion up to the 7th round . JugendSchach Heft 6/94, pp. 4–9 (report, photos, tables and games).
  2. ↑ Report at ChessBase , with video
  3. ↑ World champion Kostenjuk calls for the Swiss elite ( memento from July 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), July 2, 2010 (accessed on August 9, 2012).
  4. ↑ 113th Swiss Individual Chess Championships 2013 in Grächen
  5. ^ Women's Chess World Championship 2010 , accessed December 16, 2010.
  6. ↑ Alexandra Kosteniuk Marries Pavel Tregubov. August 8, 2015, accessed August 9, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Lucy Cockcroft: Glamorous Russian swimsuit model wins Women's World Chess Championship. The Telegraph, September 18, 2008, accessed November 16, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Alexandra Kostenjuks results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ Alexandra Kostenjuks results at the women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. ↑ Alexandra Kostenjuks results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  11. ↑ a b Alexandra Kostenjuks results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kostenjuk, Alexandra Konstantinovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kosteniuk, Alexandra (FIDE); Костенюк, Александра Константиновна (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player and world chess champion
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Perm (city)