Tatiana Kosintseva won the European Women's Chess Championship 2009

Russian IM Tatiana Kosintseva, who beat IM Lilit Mkrtchian won the 10th European Individual Women's Chess Championship. Lilit Mkrtchian won the silver medial while for the bronze medal there was a seven-player tiebreak, won by WGM Natalija Pogonina of Russia. Report with games, pictures and videos.

The 10th European Women Chess Championship will take place from March 7 - March 21 at Saint Petersburg . The playing time will be 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one.