Aleksander Delchev

Aleksander Delchev

Aleksander Delchev at Dresden
Full name Aleksander Delchev
Country Bulgaria
Born July 15, 1971 (1971-07-15) (age 40)
Sofia, Bulgaria
Title Grandmaster (1997)
FIDE rating 2625
(No. 135 on the May 2010 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating 2669 (October 2005)

Aleksander Delchev (Bulgarian: Александър Делчев; born July 15, 1971) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 1994, 1996 and 2001. He participated in five Chess Olympiads with a performance of 60.4% (+20=24-9).[1]

Selected tournament victories include the European Junior Chess Championship (1991–1992), the 47th Reggio Emilia chess tournament (2004–2005),[2] 4th Open Master at the Sixth International Chess Festival in Benidorm (2007)[3] and the International Open Championship of Croatia (2007).[4] In 2011 he tied for 2nd-7th with Julio Granda, Ivan Šarić, Pablo Almagro Llamas, Maxim Turov and Mihail Marin the 31st Villa de Benasque Open.[5]

He is the author of two books on opening theory:

References

  1. ^ OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Alexander Delchev
  2. ^ Circolo Scacchistico Ippogrifo | Reggio Emilia|
  3. ^ ChessBase.com - Chess News - Chess Festival in Benidorm – where a new genre is born
  4. ^ Chess news and events: International Open Championship of Croatia
  5. ^ "Tigran Petrosian Victorious in Benasque Open". Chessdom. http://tournaments.chessdom.com/news-2011/benasque-open. Retrieved 17 July 2011. 

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