Alexander Shabalov
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| Alexander Shabalov | ||
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| Alexander Shabalov at the 2002 U.S. Chess Championships | ||
| Full name | Alexander Shabalov | |
| Country |  United States |
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| Born | September 12, 1967 Riga, Latvia |
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| Title | Grandmaster | |
| FIDE rating | 2633 (No. 87 on the April 2008 FIDE ratings list) |
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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 was the 2007 US Champion. 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 June 2007 rating supplement Shabalov had a United States Chess Federation rating of 2671, ranking him 7th best among American chess players and 81st in the world.
Until recently, Alexander Shabalov regularly lectured chess players of all ages at the House of Chess, a store that he ran at the Ross Park Mall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, until it closed in mid-2007. He has been known to play against anyone who shows up, and to be similarly obliging to autograph-seekers.
[edit] External links
- FIDE rating card for Alexander Shabalov
- Alexander Shabalov at ChessGames.com
- Video reenactment of Tanner vs Shabalov game by Serguei Vorojtsov
- Ackerman, Jan (January 03, 2004), Chess master's next move will be writing about it, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, <http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20040103closeuplocal3p3.asp>
| 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 |
| Preceded by Alexander Onischuk |
United States Chess Champion 2007 |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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