Evgeny Alekseev

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Evgeny Alekseev
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Full name Евгений Владимирович Алексеев
Country Flag of Russia Russia
Born November 28, 1985 (1985-11-28) (age 22)
Pushkin, Russia
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2711
(No. 20 on the April 2008 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating 2711 (January 2008)

Evgeny Vladimirovich Alekseev (born November 28, 1985 in Pushkin, Russia) is a Russian chess player. In 2006 he won the Russian Chess Championship, defeating Dmitry Jakovenko in a playoff match. By winning the 2007 Aeroflot Open in Moscow, Alekseev qualified for the 2007 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting, where he shared second place—behind World Champion Vladimir Kramnik—with Viswanathan Anand and Péter Lékó.

Preceded by
Sergei Rublevsky
Russian Chess Champion
2006
Succeeded by
Alexander Morozevich

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