Nadezhda Kosintseva

Nadezhda Kosintseva Надежда Косинцева
at the Dresden Olympiad, 2008
Full name	Nadezhda Anatolyevna Kosintseva
Country	Russia
Born	January 14, 1985 (1985-01-14) (age 26) Arkhangelsk, Russian SFSR, USSR
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2567 (No.4 ranked woman in the May 2011 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating	2576 (November 2010)

Nadezhda Anatolyevna Kosintseva (Russian: Надежда Анатольевна Косинцева; born January 14, 1985) is a Russian chess player. She holds the title of Grandmaster.

A prolific champion of junior chess, she has an enviable history at the European Youth Chess Championship, taking gold medals in 1995 (Girls Under-10, Verdun), 1997 (Girls Under-12, Tallinn) and 2000 (Girls Under-18, Kallithea). There were silver and bronze medals at the other age groups too. At the World Youth Chess Championship of 1998, held in Oropesa del Mar, she took the gold medal in the Girls Under-14 event. She was twice the bronze medalist at the World Junior Chess Championship (Girls, Under-20) in 2001 and 2002.

At the European Individual Women's Chess Championship 2005, held in Moldova in June, she finished in second place behind Kateryna Lahno.

In 2006, along with younger sister Tatiana (as of 2009 an International Grandmaster), she shared second place at the Russian women's superfinal, one-half point behind the winner. Being of similar strength, the two sisters normally play on consecutive boards of the national women's team at the Chess Olympiad and other team events.

In December 2008, she won the Russian Women's Championship in Moscow.^[1] She finished second in this event in 2009.^[2]

References

1. ^ "Women's RUS Chmp. 2008". FIDE. http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=17355. Retrieved 13 May 2011. 
2. ^ "59. Womens Chmp. 2009". FIDE. http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=48012. Retrieved 13 May 2011. 

External links

• FIDE rating card for Nadezhda Kosintseva
• Nadezhda Kosintseva player profile at ChessGames.com
• Statistics at ChessWorld.net

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Name	Kosintseva, Nadezhda
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Date of birth	January 14, 1985
Place of birth	Arkhangelsk
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