Nadezhda Anatolyevna Kosintseva (
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: Надежда Анатольевна Косинцева; born January 14, 1985) is a
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player. She holds the title of Grandmaster.
A prolific champion of junior chess, she has an enviable history at the
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, taking gold medals in 1995 (Girls Under-10,
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), 1997 (Girls Under-12,
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) and 2000 (Girls Under-18,
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). There were silver and bronze medals at the other age groups too. At the
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of 1998, held in
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, she took the gold medal in the Girls Under-14 event. She was twice the bronze medalist at the
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(Girls, Under-20) in 2001 and 2002.
At the European Individual Women's Chess Championship 2005, held in
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in June, she finished in second place behind
Kateryna Lahno.
In 2006, along with younger sister
TatianaTatiana Anatolyevna Kosintseva is a Russian chess player who has achieved the FIDE title of Grandmaster...
(as of 2009 an
International GrandmasterThe title Grandmaster is awarded to strong chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....
), she shared second place at the Russian women's superfinal, one-half point behind the winner. Being of similar strength, the two sisters normally play on consecutive boards of the national women's team at the
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and other team events.
In December 2008, she won the Russian Women's Championship in Moscow. She finished second in this event in 2009.
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