Alexander Shabalov

Alexander Shabalov
Alexander Shabalov at the 2002 U.S. Chess Championships
Country	Soviet Union  Latvia  United States
Born	(1967-09-12) September 12, 1967 Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2538 (January 2016)
Peak rating	2645 (July 1998)[1]

Alexander Shabalov (Russian: Александр Анатольевич Шабалов, Aleksandr Anatolyevich Shabalov; Latvian: Aleksandrs Šabalovs; born September 12, 1967) is an American chess grandmaster. He is a four-time winner of the United States Chess Championship, with his most recent title coming in 2007.

In 2009 Shabalov shared first place with Fidel Corrales Jimenez in the American Continental Chess Championship.^[2]

He was born in Riga, Latvia, and like his fellow Latvians Alexei Shirov and Mikhail Tal he is known for courting complications even at the cost of objective soundness. As of the January 2013 rating supplement Shabalov had a United States Chess Federation rating of 2657, ranking him 18th best among American chess players.

Shabalov regularly lectured chess players of all ages at the House of Chess, a store that he ran at the Ross Park Mall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, until it closed in mid-2007.

Notable games

• Alexey Shirov vs Alexander Shabalov, Rapidplay 2001, Spanish Game: Schliemann Defense, Dyckhoff Variation (C63), 0-1
• Alexander Shabalov vs Varuzhan Akobian, US Championships 2003 2003, French Defense: Advance, Lputian Variation (C02), 1-0
• Alexander Shabalov vs John Fedorowicz, US Championships 2003 2003, Benko Gambit: Accepted, Pawn Return Variation (A57), 1-0

References

External links

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• Alexander Shabalov rating card at FIDE
• Alexander Shabalov player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Alexander Shabalov chess games at 365Chess.com
• Alexander Shabalov USCF profile
• Interview with Alexander Shabalov
• Ackerman, Jan (January 3, 2004), Chess master's next move will be writing about it, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette