Which title was conferred to Alexandra Kosteniuk in 1997?
Alexandra Kosteniuk Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk ( ; born 23 April 1984 ) is a Russian chess grandmaster and Womens World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010 . She was European womens champion in 2004 and a two time Russian Womens Chess Champion ( in 2005 and 2016 ) . Kosteniuk won the team gold medal playing for Russia at the Womens Chess Olympiads of 2010 , 2012 and 2014 , the Womens World Team Chess Championship of 2017 , and the Womens European Team Chess Championships of 2007 , 2009 , 2011 , 2015 and 2017 . Chess career . Kosteniuk learned to play chess at the age of five after being taught by her father . She graduated in 2003 from the Russian State Academy of Physical Education in Moscow as a certified professional chess trainer . 1994 . Alexandra won the girls under 10 division of the European Youth Chess Championship . 1996 . Alexandra won the girls under 12 title at both the European Youth Championships and World Youth Chess Championships . At twelve years old she also became the Russian womens champion in rapid chess . 2001 . In 2001 , at the age of 17 , she reached the final of the World Womens Chess Championship and was defeated by Zhu Chen . 2001-2004 . Kosteniuk became European womens champion by winning the tournament in Dresden , Germany . Thanks to this achievement , in November 2004 , she was awarded the grandmaster title , becoming the tenth woman to receive the highest title of the World Chess Federation ( FIDE ) . Before that , she had also obtained the titles of Woman Grandmaster in 1998 and International Master in 2000 . 2005 . Kosteniuk won the Russian Womens Championship . 2006-2008 . In August , she became the first Chess960 womens world champion after beating Germanys top female player Elisabeth Pähtz by 5½–2½ . She defended that title successfully in 2008 by beating Kateryna Lahno However , her greatest success so far has been to win the Womens World Chess Championship 2008 , beating in the final the young Chinese prodigy Hou Yifan , with a score of Later in the same year , she won the womens individual blitz event of the 2008 World Mind Sports Games in Beijing . 2010 . In the Womens World Chess Championship 2010 she was eliminated in the third round by the eventual runner-up , Ruan Lufei , and thus lost her title . 2013 . In 2013 , Kosteniuk became the first woman to win the men’s Swiss Chess Championship . She also won the Swiss champion title . 2014 . In 2014 , she tied for first place with Kateryna Lagno in the Womens World Rapid Championship , which was held in Khanty-Mansiysk , and took the silver medal on tiebreak , as Lagno won the direct encounter . 2015 . In 2015 Kosteniuk won the European–ACP Womens Rapid Championship in Kutaisi . In July of the same year , she lost the Swiss championship playoff to Vadim Milov , and was declared womens Swiss champion . 2016 . Kosteniuk again won the Russian Womens Championship . 2017 . In 2017 she won the European ACP Womens Blitz Championship in Monte Carlo . 2019 . In late May , Alexandra faced Ukrainian-American International Master Anna Zatonskih in the quarterfinal match of the 2019 Womens Speed Chess Championship , an online blitz and bullet competition hosted by Chess.com . Kosteniuk dominated the match and won with an overall score of 20–8 . In late November , Kosteniuk won the European Womens rapid and blitz championships in Monaco . In December , she shared first place in the second leg of FIDE Womens Grand Prix 2019–20 in Monaco . In December she also achieved 2nd place in the Belt and Road World Chess Woman Summit , behind Hou Yifan . 2020 . In August 2020 , Alexandra was part of the Russian team which shared the gold medal with India in the Online Chess Olympiad . She was unhappy with this result and has also tweeted regarding this issue , drawing criticism from many chess followers . Other activities . Kosteniuk worked as a model and also acted in the film Bless the Woman by Stanislav Govorukhin . Kosteniuk is a member of the Champions for Peace club , a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport , created by Peace and Sport , a Monaco-based international organization . Personal life . Born in Perm , Kosteniuk moved to Moscow in 1985 . She has a younger sister named Oksana , who is a Woman FIDE Master level chess player . Kosteniuk has dual Swiss-Russian citizenship . She married Swiss-born Diego Garces , who is of Colombian descent , at eighteen years old . On 22 April 2007 she gave birth to a daughter , Francesca Maria . Francesca was born 2½ months premature , but after an 8-week stay in the hospital made a full recovery . In 2015 , Kosteniuk married Russian Grandmaster Pavel Tregubov . Notable games . - The World vs Alexandra Kosteniuk , 2004 , Sicilian Defense : Najdorf Variation . English Attack ( B90 ) , 0–1 - Alexandra Kosteniuk vs Alexander Onischuk , Corus , Group B 2005 , Spanish Game : Classical Variation ( C65 ) , 1–0 - Anna Ushenina vs Alexandra Kosteniuk , WWCh . 2008 , Nimzo-Indian Defense : Classical , Noa Variation ( E34 ) , 0–1 Bibliography . - Как стать гроссмейстером в 14 лет . Moscow , 2001 . 202 , [ 2 ] с. , [ 16 ] л . ил . . - Как научить шахматам : дошкольный шахматный учебник / Александра Костенюк , Наталия Костенюк . Moscow : Russian Chess House , 2008 . 142 с . External links . - Chessqueen Alexandra Kosteniuks chess blog - Alexandra Kosteniuk chess games at 365Chess.com - Alexandra Kosteniuks chess tips – ChessKillerTips - Interview with Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk on LatestChess site