Alexander Moiseenko

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Alexander Moiseenko

Full name	Александр Моисеенко
Country	Ukraine
Born	May 17, 1980 (1980-05-17) (age 28) Severomorsk, Soviet Union

Title	Grandmaster


FIDE rating	2650 (No. 69 on the April 2008 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating	2669 (January 2005)

Alexander Moiseenko (born May 17, 1980) is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster (chess). He was a member of the gold-medal winning Ukrainian team at the chess Olympiad in 2004.

Born in Severomorsk, Russia, his family moved to Kharkiv, Ukraine, when he was nine.^[1] Moiseenko won the World Championship for Boys Under 16 in Spain in 1996, and was awarded the International Master title. He improved his standard steadily over the next several years. He placed 2nd at the Ukrainian Junior Championship, Kharkov 1998, with 7/11. In the European U18 Championship, Mureck 1998, he scored 6.5/9 for a shared 2nd-5th place.^[2]

He tied for 1st-5th places in the Ukrainian Chess Championship, Alushta 1999. In the Ukrainian Grandmaster event of 1999, he finished clear first with 10/13, earning a Grandmaster norm. He then tied for 1st-2nd places at Orel 1999 with 8/11. In the Krasnodar Kuban event of 1999, he won with 7.5/11. This set of excellent results earned him the Grandmaster title. He was second in the Ukrainian Junior Championship at Kharkov 2000 with 7.5/11.^[2]

Moiseenko has played for Ukraine at the Chess Olympiads three times. He was a member of the gold medal Ukrainian team at Calvia 2004. He also played for Ukraine in the 2003 and 2005 European Team Championships, and in the 2005 World Team Championships. In 42 high-level games, he has scored (+21 =15 −6), for 67.9 per cent.

Bled 2002 Olympiad, 2nd reserve, 7/9 (+5 =4 −0);
Plovdiv 2003, European Team Championship, board 2, 5/8 (+3 =4 −1);
Calvia 2004 Olympiad, board 4, 5/8 (+3 =4 −1), team gold;
Gothenburg 2005, European Team Championship, board 3, 6/8 (+5 =2 −1), board bronze;
Beersheva 2005 World Team Championship, 1st reserve, 1.5/3 (+1 =1 −1);
Turin 2006 Olympiad, 1st reserve, 4/6 (+4 =0 −2).^[3]

Moiseenko scored 8.5/13 at the EU Championships at Istanbul 2003, for a shared 4-11th place. This qualified him into the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 at Tripoli. There, in round one, he defeated Sergey Dolmatov by 1.5-0.5, to advance. In round two, he defeated Victor Bologan by 2.5-1.5 in playoffs. He was knocked out in round three by Vladimir Akopian by 0.5-1.5.

Moiseenko has done especially well at top events in Canada in recent years. At the 2003 Guelph International Pro-Am, he scored 6.5/9 for a shared 3rd-5th place. He won the 2003 Toronto Chess'n Math Association Futurity with 8.5/10. He won the 2003 Canadian Open Chess Championship at Kapuskasing with 8/10. The next year at the same site, he defended his title in that championship, shared with Dimitry Tyomkin, on 8/10. He won the Guelph International Pro-Am 2004 with 7.5/9. He shared 2nd-3rd places at the Montreal International 2004 with 7/11. In the 2005 Canadian Open Chess Championship at Edmonton, he scored 7/10 in an elite field, for a shared 12-27th place. He won the Quebec Open at Montreal 2006 with 8/9, and shared 3rd-9th places at the 2006 Canadian Open Chess Championship at Kitchener with 6.5/9.^[4]