Career
There were silver and bronze medals at the other age groups too. At the World Youth Chess Championship of 1998, held in Oropesa del March, she took the gold medal in the Girls Under-14 event. She was twice the bronze medalist at the World Junior Chess Championship (Girls, Under-20) in 2001 and 2002.
At the European Individual Women"s Chess Championship 2005, held in Moldova in June, she finished in second place behind Kateryna Lahno.
She finished second in this event in 2009. In 2010, she tied for 1st–7th with grandmasters Alexander Riazantsev, Vitali Golod, Leonid Kritz, Sébastien Feller, Christian Bauer, Sébastien Mazé in the 43rd Biel Chess Festival.
Nadezhda Kosintseva married Leonid Kritz in late December 2012.