Alexandra Kosteniuk

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alexandra Kosteniuk
Occupation	Chess Player
Date Of Birth	Apr 23, 1984(1984-04-23)
Age	40
Birthplace	Russia
Country	Russia
Horoscope	Taurus

Alexandra Kosteniuk Biography

Alexandra Kosteniuk is one of the most popular and richest Chess Player who was born on April 23, 1984 in Russia, Russia. Chess Grandmaster from Russia who won the Women’s World Champion in 2008.

She is a female counterpart to Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen.

Born in Perm, Kosteniuk moved to Moscow in 1985. She has a younger sister named Oksana, who is a Woman FIDE Master level chess player.

In 2001, at the age of 17, she reached the final of the World Women’s Chess Championship and was defeated by Zhu Chen.

Her sister Oxana Kosteniuk is also a chess master.

Alexandra Kosteniuk Net Worth

Alexandra Kosteniuk is one of the richest Chess Player from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alexandra Kosteniuk 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was taught to play chess by her father when she was a little girl and, in 2001, at the age of 17, she reached the finals of the World Women’s Chess Championship.

She became a chess Grandmaster in 2004 and in 2011 she was ranked 44th in the FIDE women’s Elo rating list with a rating of 2439.

Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (Russian: Алекса́ндра Константи́новна Костеню́к ; born 23 April 1984) is a Russian chess grandmaster and Women’s World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010. 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, and the Women’s European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Alexandra Kosteniuk Dating?

According to our records, Alexandra Kosteniuk married to Pavel Tregubov. As of December 1, 2023, Alexandra Kosteniuk’s is not dating anyone.

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In August, she became the first Chess960 women’s world champion after beating Germany’s top female player Elisabeth Pähtz by 5½–2½. She defended that title successfully in 2008 by beating Kateryna Lahno 2½–1½. However, her greatest success so far has been to win the Women’s World Chess Championship 2008, beating in the final the young Chinese prodigy Hou Yifan, with a score of 2½–1½. Later in the same year, she won the women’s individual blitz event of the 2008 World Mind Sports Games in Beijing.

Facts & Trivia

Alexandra Ranked on the list of most popular Chess Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Alexandra Kosteniuk celebrates birthday on April 23 of every year.

In 2015 Kosteniuk won the European–ACP Women’s Rapid Championship in Kutaisi. In July of the same year, she lost the Swiss championship playoff to Vadim Milov, and was declared women’s Swiss champion.

Where does Alexandra Kosteniuk live?

Born in Perm, Kosteniuk moved to Moscow in 1985. She has a younger sister named Oksana, who is a Woman FIDE Master-level chess player. Kosteniuk has dual Swiss-Russian citizenship.

Who is Chessqueen?

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Is Alexandra Kosteniuk married?

Pavel Tregubov

Where are the Botez sisters from?

Andrea Botez

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