If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

- Alexandra Kosteniuk

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

- Alexandra Kosteniuk

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue he…

- Alexandra Kosteniuk

You have to win something for people to think about you.

- Alexandra Kosteniuk

When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.

- Alexandra Kosteniuk

It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that …

- Alexandra Kosteniuk

I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.

- Alexandra Kosteniuk

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

- Alexandra Kosteniuk

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

- Alexandra Kosteniuk