Tatiana Kosintseva
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Tatiana Kosintseva at Iraklion, 2007
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| Full name | Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva Татьяна Анатольевна Косинцева |
| Country | Russia |
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11 April 1986 Arkhangelsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2475 (May 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2581 (November 2010) |
Tatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva (Russian: Татьяна Анатольевна Косинцева; born 11 April 1986 in Arkhangelsk) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (GM). She achieved her title from FIDE in October 2009.
She is two-time European women's champion and three-time Russian women's champion. 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.
Along with elder sister Nadezhda, the six-year-old Tatiana became a chess player by virtue of a twist of fate. Wandering home from dance lessons with their mother, the pair happened upon a chess club and decided then and there to take up the game.
As a youngster, she recalls being inspired by a book of former World Champion Alexander Alekhine's games and was similarly impressed by the games of Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer.
Soon after, she became a fearsome competitor at the top level of junior chess, her collection of tournament prizes rivalling even her sister's haul. At the World Youth Chess Championship, she earned silver medals at the Under-10 (Cala Galdana, 1996) and Under-12 (Cannes, 1997) events. In the Under-10 category of the 1996 European Youth Chess Championship held at Rimavska Sobota she went one better, that time taking home the gold medal. Silver medals were added at the Euro events in Mureck (1998) and Kallithea (2000), at Under-12 and Under-18 levels, respectively.
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