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Kosteniuk worked as a model and also acted in the film Bless the Woman by Stanislav Govorukhin. [9] [32] 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. [33] [34]
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) was established in 1924 as the governing body of competitive chess. At the time, the term "grandmaster" was already being informally used to describe the world's leading chess players since the players competing in the Championship section of the Ostend 1907 chess tournament were referred to as "grandmasters" in reference to them all having previously ...
The Women's World Chess Championship 2008 took place from August 28, 2008 to September 18 in Nalchik, Russia.It was won by Alexandra Kosteniuk, who beat Hou Yifan in the final by 2½ to 1½.
Alexandra Kosteniuk: 2561 2018-01 1984 Highest-ranked Swiss female player (since 2023)
The Women's Chess World Cup 2021 was a 103-player single-elimination chess tournament, the first edition of Women's Chess World Cup, that took place in Sochi, Russia, from 12 July to 3 August 2021. [1]
It was won by Zhu Chen, who beat Alexandra Kosteniuk in the final by 5 to 3. [1] The final was tied 2–2 after the classical games and decided in the rapid tie-breaks. [2] For the second time, the championship took the form of a 64-player knock-out tournament.
Alexandra Kosteniuk (Switzerland) Irina Krush (United States) Kateryna Lagno (Russia) Lei Tingjie (China) Anna Muzychuk (Ukraine) Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine) Elisabeth Pähtz (Germany) Peng Zhaoqin (Netherlands) Judit Polgár (Hungary) Susan Polgár (Hungary) Marie Sebag (France) Monika Soćko (Poland)
In April 2014, Lagno won the Women's World Rapid Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk by tie-break over Alexandra Kosteniuk. [8] On 11 July 2014, FIDE officially approved her transition from the Ukrainian Chess Federation to the Russian Chess Federation, as filed in March 2014. [9]