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Alexandra Kosteniuk

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Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (Russian: Александра Константиновна Костенюк; born 23 April 1984) is a Russian and Swiss 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; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexandra Kosteniuk is the 211th most popular chess player (down from 206th in 2019), the 2,322nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,390th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Alexandra Kosteniuk ranks 211 out of 461. Before her are Juan Corzo, Arnold Denker, Alexei Shirov, Nana Ioseliani, Herman Steiner, and Levente Lengyel. After her are Ľubomír Ftáčnik, John Owen, Anatoly Lein, Paul Felix Schmidt, Larissa Volpert, and Ruslan Ponomariov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Alexandra Kosteniuk ranks 146. Before her are Niko Kranjčar, Fantasia Barrino, Georgia Moffett, Masahiko Kimura, Jeremy Jordan, and Seo Ji-hye. After her are Asia Kate Dillon, John Gallagher Jr., Vitaly Petrov, Andriy Pyatov, Maria Lvova-Belova, and Dustin Brown.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexandra Kosteniuk ranks 2,322 out of 3,761. Before her are Yury Kazakov (1927), Nikolai Manoshin (1938), Dmitri Prigov (1940), Viktor Zubkov (1937), Aleksandr Rogozhkin (1949), and Tetyana Dorovskikh (1961). After her are Konstantin Loktev (1933), Ivan Moskvin (1874), Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862), Lydia Zvereva (1890), Sergey Bezrukov (1973), and Oleg Golovanov (1934).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Alexandra Kosteniuk ranks 30. Before her are Gennadi Sosonko (1943), Ratmir Kholmov (1925), Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1944), Ian Nepomniachtchi (1990), Leonid Shamkovich (1923), and Irina Levitina (1954). After her are Anatoly Lein (1931), Larissa Volpert (1926), Yuri Balashov (1949), Alexander Morozevich (1977), Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya (1957), and Alexander Grischuk (1983).

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