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Full name | Alexander Riazantsev |
Country | Russia |
Born | September 12, 1985 |
Title | Grandmaster (2001) |
FIDE rating | 2688 (No. 57 in the September 2011 FIDE World Rankings) |
Peak rating | 2689 (November 2010) |
Alexander Riazantsev (born September 12, 1985) is a Russian chess player and International Grandmaster.
In 1997, he won the World Chess U12 Championship in Cannes, France. In 2006, he came first in the Moscow championship.[1] In 2010, he tied for 1st–7th with Vitali Golod, Nadezhda Kosintseva, Leonid Kritz, Sebastien Feller, Christian Bauer, Sebastien Maze in the 43rd Biel Chess Festival and won the event on tie-break after all scored 8/11.[2]
In September 2011, Riazantsev was appointed Russian national team coach.[3]