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Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk ((ロシア語:Алекса́ндра Константи́новна Костеню́к); born 23 April 1984) is a Russian chess Grandmaster and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012 and 2014, and at the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2015. ==Chess career== Kosteniuk learned to play chess at the age of five after being taught by her father. In 2001, at the age of 17, she reached the final of the World Women's Chess Championship, but was defeated by Zhu Chen. Three years later, she became European women's champion by winning the tournament in Dresden, Germany. Thanks to this achievement, in November 2004, she was awarded the International Grandmaster title, becoming the tenth woman to receive the highest title of the World Chess Federation (FIDE). Before that, she had also obtained the titles of Woman Grandmaster in 1998 and International Master in 2000. She also won the 2005 Russian Women's Championship, held in Samara, Russia, finishing with a score of +7 −0 =4 . In August 2006, 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 〔(ChessBase.com – Chess News – Mainz 2008 Kosteniuk wins Chess960, Rybka and Shredder qualify )〕 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 〔(Alexandra Kosteniuk is Women's World Champion ) ChessBase〕〔( The crowning of Kosteniuk as a World Champion ) Chessdom〕 Later in the same year, she won the women's individual blitz tournament of the 2008 World Mind Sports Games.〔( Kosteniuk wins WMSG blitz title ) Chessdom〕 In the Women's World Chess Championship 2010 she was eliminated in the third round by eventual runner-up Ruan Lufei and thus lost her title. In 2013 she became the first woman to win the men’s Swiss Chess Championship.〔(chessqueen.com - Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk's Chess Blog )〕 That year she also won the women's Swiss Championship, and thus became the first person to win both the women’s and men’s national chess titles in Switzerland. 〔 In 2015 Kosteniuk won the European–ACP Women's Rapid Championship in Kutaisi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexandra Kosteniuk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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