Nadezhda Kosintseva

Nadezhda Kosintseva, born in Arkhangelsk in 1985,
is a Russian chess grandmaster and former top-ranked player.
During her youth career, she won three European titles as well as the 1998 Girls’ Under-14 World Championship.
In 2008, she became Russian Women’s Champion,
and in 2009 she received the FIDE Caissa Award following an unbeaten season.
As a member of the Russian national team,
Kosintseva won two Chess Olympiads and three European Team Chess Championships.
She reached a peak rating of 2576 in 2010, placing her fifth in the women’s world rankings,
and earned the full grandmaster title in 2011.
After largely retiring from competitive chess in 2013, she settled in the United States, where she now works as a chess coach.