Alexandra Kosteniuk Quotes

• When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.

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• You have to win something for people to think about you.

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• Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.

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• 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 helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

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• 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, and that is so cool!

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• It’s a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

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• If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

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• I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.

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• Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

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• 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.

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Alexandra Kosteniuk (10)

Birth:	23rd April, 1984
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Chess Player

About

Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk is a Russian chess Grandmaster and a former Women's World Chess Champion. 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. 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 5½–2½. She defended that title successfully in 2008 by beating Kateryna Lahno 2½–1½. Alexandra is today a member of the ‘Champions for Peace’ club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization.

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