Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (Russian: Алекса ндра Константи новна Костеню к; born April 23, 1984 in Perm) is a Russian chess Grandmaster and a former Women's World Chess Champion. Read full biography of Alexandra Kosteniuk →
Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.
A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.
My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue... →
If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.
Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.
I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.
It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.
When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.
You have to win something for people to think about you.
It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world... →
Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (Russian: Алекса ндра Константи новна Костеню к; born April 23, 1984 in Perm) is a Russian chess Grandmaster and a former Women's World Chess Champion.