Evgeny Alekseev (chess player)

Evgeny Alekseev

Full name Евгений Владимирович Алексеев
Country  Russia
Born November 28, 1985
Pushkin, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2653 (May 2015)
(No. 78 in the January 2012 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating 2725 (September 2009)

Evgeny Vladimirovich Alekseev (born November 28, 1985 in Pushkin, Soviet Union) is a Russian chess grandmaster (2001). 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.

In 2013 he tied for 1st–8th with Alexander Moiseenko, Evgeny Romanov, Alexander G Beliavsky, Constantin Lupulescu, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Sergei Movsesian, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alexey Dreev and Hrant Melkumyan in the European Individual Chess Championship.[1]

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

References

  1. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2013-05-16). "14th European Individual Championships 2013". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 18 May 2013.

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