Kosintseva Tatania (11.04.1986)

Kotsintseva T smlRussian Grandmaster (2009), Woman Grandmaster (2002).  European Women’s Champion in 2007 and 2009, 2012 European Women’s Rapid Championship, World U10 Girls Champion in 1997, World U12 Girls Champion in 1998 and European U10 Champion in 1997 (with 8½:9), European Girls U12 Champion in 1998, Russian U18 Champion in 1999, Russian Women’s Champion in 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2008.

Best results: 2003 European Women’s Championship, 3rd; Biel Accentus 2004, 1st; FIDE Women Grand Prix in Nalchik in 2010, 1st, Russian Women championship 2010, 1-3rd; 2012 European Women’s Championship, 2nd.

A member of the Russian women’s team between 2002 and 2014, she won the gold in the 2007 and 2009 European Women’s Championships and in the 2010 Olympiad.

She’s the younger sister of Nadezhda Kosintseva. Like her sister, he quited chess in 2015.

Peak rating: 2581 in 2010, she was the Russian’s highest rated woman player.