1. Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva is a Russian chess grandmaster.
11 Facts About Tatiana Kosintseva
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Tatiana Kosintseva was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007.
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Tatiana Kosintseva was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010 and 2012, and at the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007,2009 and 2011.
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Tatiana Kosintseva started to play chess at 6 years old along with elder sister Nadezhda, when coming back home from dance lessons with their mother they happened upon a chess club and decided then and there to take up the game.
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Tatiana Kosintseva won the gold medal in the Girls Under 10 category of the 1996 European Youth Chess Championships, held at Rimavska Sobota.
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In 2002,2004 and 2007 Tatiana Kosintseva won the Russian Women's Chess Championship.
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Also in 2004, Tatiana Kosintseva won the Accentus Ladies Tournament at the Biel Chess Festival.
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Tatiana Kosintseva won the European Individual Women's Chess Championship in 2007 with a tournament performance rating of 2774.
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In 2010 Tatiana Kosintseva won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix event in Nalchik with a performance rating of 2735.
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In 2012, Tatiana Kosintseva won the European Women's Rapid Chess Championship in Gaziantep, Turkey.
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Tatiana Kosintseva has not played a FIDE-rated classical game since March 2015.