Alexander Shabalov
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Alexander Shabalov (born September 12, 1967) is an American chess grandmaster, the multiple winner of the U.S. Chess Championships. He is of Latvian origin, and like his fellow Latvians Alexei Shirov and Mikhail Tal he is known for courting complications even at the cost of objective soundness. As of the October 2006 rating supplement Shabalov had a United States Chess Federation rating of 2650, ranking him 11th best among American chess players.
Currently, Alexander Shabalov regularly lectures chess players of all ages at store that he runs in a Pittsburgh Pennsylvania mall. Amazingly, this estemed chess player is willing to play a game with about any random player who walks in the door.
 2002 U.S. Chess Championships |
[edit] External links
- FIDE rating card for Alexander Shabalov
- Alexander Shabalov at ChessGames.com
| Preceded by Patrick Wolff |
United States Chess Champion 1993 (with Alex Yermolinsky) |
Succeeded by Boris Gulko |
| Preceded by Boris Gulko |
United States Chess Champion 2000-2001 (with Joel Benjamin and Yasser Seirawan) |
Succeeded by Larry Christiansen |
| Preceded by Larry Christiansen |
United States Chess Champion 2003–2004 |
Succeeded by Hikaru Nakamura |
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