Tatiana Kostiuk is a Ukrainian chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 player who has earned the Woman Grandmaster title.

Biography

Born in Chernigov, Ukraine, Tatiana studied Management in hotel, resort and tourism at the National Municipal Academy in Kharkov, where she gained a Masters degree in 2006.

Chess career

Kostiuk enjoyed placings at local and national level in various age groupings from the age of ten, with moderate success in the European Chess Championships for youth. Following her 4th place in the under 18 European Championship of 1999, she obtained the FIDE title Woman International Master of chess. The following year, Kostiuk became the under 18 European Chess Champion, and in 2004 obtained the national title Woman Master of Ukraine in chess.

In 2006, Kostiuk won the round tournament in France and was awarded the FIDE Women Grand Master title.

Kostiuk has participated in chess tournaments for the Ukrainian Team in the Romanian, Russian and Cyprus Leagues. In 2008 she won the Open tournament in Vladimir, Russia. In the 2009 Championship of Paris Open A, she placed 2-7 in the general tournament and 1st for women.

She currently trains at the chess club of Kiev, under Kosikov A. I.

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