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Alexandra Kosteniuk

1984 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandra Kosteniuk has received more than 478,587 page views. Her biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Alexandra Kosteniuk is the 206th most popular chess player (down from 201st in 2019), the 2,390th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,147th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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  • 480k

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  • 50.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Alexandra Kosteniuk ranks 206 out of 461. Before her are Nana Ioseliani, Robert Byrne, John Owen, Predrag Nikolić, Julio Bolbochán, and Irina Levitina. After her are Ian Nepomniachtchi, Ashot Anastasian, Larissa Volpert, Yasser Seirawan, Boris Gulko, and John Nunn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Alexandra Kosteniuk ranks 143. Before her are Oleksiy Honcharuk, Álvaro Bautista, Seo Ji-hye, Jeremy Jordan, Marion Bartoli, and Tony Ferguson. After her are Ryan Eggold, Taylor Schilling, Doda, Mbark Boussoufa, Izabel Goulart, and Piotr Trochowski.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexandra Kosteniuk ranks 2,390 out of 3,761. Before her are Anastasia Myskina (1981), Isa Munayev (1965), Leonid Khabarov (1947), Mikhail Anikushin (1917), Irina Levitina (1954), and Valery Garkalin (1954). After her are Origa (1970), Arkady Dvorkovich (1972), Pavel Shternberg (1865), Antonina Seredina (1929), Ian Nepomniachtchi (1990), and Ruslan Gelayev (1964).

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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), Anatoly Lein (1931), Vitaly Tseshkovsky (1944), Leonid Shamkovich (1923), and Irina Levitina (1954). After her are Ian Nepomniachtchi (1990), Larissa Volpert (1926), Alexander Morozevich (1977), Alexander Grischuk (1983), Yuri Balashov (1949), and Andrei Sokolov (1963).

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