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Sunday, 31 July 2011 |
Nadezhda Kosintseva (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 in 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 medallist 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 her younger sister Tatiana, she shared second place at the Russian women's super final, one-half point behind the winner. In December 2008, she won the Russian Women's Championship in Moscow. She finished second in this event in 2009. She's won Olympic gold with Russian team at the last Olympiad in Khanti-Mansiysk.
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