Alexander Onischuk

Alexander Onischuk
Full name	Олександр Онищук
Country	United States
Born	(1975-09-03) September 3, 1975 Sevastopol, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2662 (January 2016) (No. 76 in the January 2012 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating	2701 (July 2010)

Alexander Onischuk (born September 3, 1975) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster.

Career

Originally from Ukraine, he immigrated to the United States in 2001. He was the 2006 U.S. Chess Champion. He is currently the fifth-ranked American grandmaster, behind Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Ray Robson, and Gata Kamsky.

Onischuk participated in International Chess Festival Biel 2007, where he placed second after Magnus Carlsen. He scored 5.5/9 like Carlsen, but lost in the tie-breaker match held after the regular rounds finished.

In the fall of 2012, Onischuk accepted the head coaching job at the 2-time reigning national division I collegiate chess champion ^[1] Texas Tech.

Results

2007 results

• 3rd: Aerosvit tournament Phoros
• 1-2: Biel
• 2nd: US Championship

2008 results

• 1st: Carlos Torre Memorial, Mérida Mexico
• 1-4: Spice Cup
• 2nd: US Championship
• 3rd: 2008 Chess Olympiad
• 3rd: Pojkovsky Russia

2009 results

• 1st: Moscow Open
• 1st: Open Mexican Championship
• 3rd: US Championship

2010 results

• 1st: Thanksgiving Open St. Louis
• 1st: Spice Cup - Lubbock
• 3rd: US Championship
• 1st: Open Mexican Championship
• 1st: The second board. World Team Chess Championship.

References

1. ↑ "Texas Tech Today". Today.ttu.edu. Retrieved 2014-07-22. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alexander Onischuk.

• Alexander Onischuk player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• OlimpBase
• fenamac.org.mx