Alexander Grischuk

Alexander Grischuk

Alexander Grischuk makes a move in the European Chess Team Championship, Warsaw, 2013
Full name Alexander Igorevich Grischuk
Country Russia
Born (1983-10-31) October 31, 1983
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2783 (August 2017)
(No. 9 in the August 2017 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating 2810 (December 2014)
Peak ranking No. 3 (May 2014)

Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (Russian: Алекса́ндр И́горевич Грищу́к; born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster and Russian champion in 2009. He has won two team gold medals and one individual bronze medal at Chess Olympiad.[1] He was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the 2013 World Team Chess Championship in Antalya.[2] Grischuk is also a three-time world champion in blitz chess.

Chess career

In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000, Grischuk made it to the semifinals, losing to Alexei Shirov. In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 he made it to the quarter finals, where he lost 3–1 to eventual champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

Alexander Grischuk, 1992 at Duisburg,
2nd at the World Chess Championship under 10

Grischuk finished in the top 10 in the 2005 FIDE World Cup, which qualified him for the 2007 Candidates Tournament in May–June 2007. He won his matches against Vladimir Malakhov (+2 −0 =3) and Sergei Rublevsky (tied at +1 −1 =4, winning the rapid playoff +2 −0 =1), to advance to the eight-player FIDE World Chess Championship 2007 tournament. In that tournament he scored 5½ out of 14, placing last in the eight-player field.

In 2009, Grischuk won the Russian Chess Championship.[3] In the same year he became the champion of Linares, winning on tie-break over Vassily Ivanchuk because he had more wins. In 2010, he finished second to Veselin Topalov in Linares.

Grischuk finished third in the FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2010, which qualified him as the first alternate for the Candidates Tournament of the World Chess Championship 2012 cycle. Upon the withdrawal of world No. 2 Magnus Carlsen from the candidates tournament, Grischuk was appointed to take his place.[4]

In the World Chess Championship 2012 Candidates tournament, Grischuk was seeded 6th out of eight players, and faced Levon Aronian in the first round. After splitting the four regular games 2–2, Grischuk won the rapid playoff 2½–1½ to advance to the semifinals. In the semifinals, he faced world No. 4 and former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. Grischuk won the blitz playoff by 1½–½ to advance to the final. In the final, he faced 2009 Chess World Cup winner Boris Gelfand for the right to play Viswanathan Anand in 2012 for the World Championship. After drawing the first five games, Gelfand won the final game to win the match by 3½–2½.

Grischuk played in the 2013 Candidates Tournament, which took place in London, from 15 March to 1 April. He finished sixth, with a score of 6½/14 points (+1=11-2).[5]

In November 2014 he took first place with 5½/7 points in the Tashir Chess Tournament in Memory of Tigran Petrosian in Moscow. This achievement enabled him to cross the 2800 Elo rating mark.[6][7] In July 2016, Grischuk won a four-game match against Ding Liren in Wenzhou by 2½–1½.[8]

In February 2017 Grischuk tied for first place with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the first event of the FIDE Grand Prix series, held in Sharjah, UAE, taking first place on tiebreak.[9][10][11] In July 2017, he beat Yu Yangyi by 3–1 in the China-Russia Chess Grandmaster Summit Match, a four-game match held in Jiayuguan, China.[12][13]

Blitz chess

In 2006 he won the World Blitz Chess Championship in Rishon Lezion, Israel with 10½/15.[14] He won his second World Blitz Championship in 2012 at Astana, Kazakhstan with 20 points out of thirty games.[15] In October 2015, Grischuk won for the third time the World Blitz Championship in Berlin with a score of 15½/21, half point ahead of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Vladimir Kramnik.[16]

Personal life

Grischuk is married to Ukrainian chess grandmaster Natalia Zhukova.[17]

References

  1. ↑ "Men's Chess Olympiads: Alexander Grischuk". OlimpBase. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "World Team 09 Russia takes gold; China silver". ChessBase. 2013-12-06. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  3. ↑ "Russian Championships Information 2009". Chess.co.uk. Archived from the original on 21 August 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
  4. ↑ Grischuk to replace Carlsen in the Candidates
  5. ↑ "Tournament standings". FIDE. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Alexander Grischuk wins the International TASHIR Chess Tournament in Memory of Tigran Petrosian". FIDE. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "Petrosian Memorial, Rd. 7. Kramnik: "Grischuk is in brilliant shape"". chess-news.ru. 2014-11-11. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
  8. ↑ Template:Cite wed
  9. ↑ GU. "Alexander Grischuk wins Sharjah Grand Prix on tie-break". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
  10. ↑ "Alexander Grischuk wins FIDE Grand Prix in Sharjah". Russian Chess Federation. 2017-02-27. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
  11. ↑ Silver, Albert (2017-02-28). "Grischuk wins Sharjah FIDE Grand Prix". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
  12. ↑ Liang, Ziming (2017-07-25). "Grischuk beats Yu 3-1 in Russia-China match". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  13. ↑ McGourty, Colin (2017-07-25). "Grischuk storms to victory over Yu Yangyi". chess24.com. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  14. ↑ "Grischuk wins FIDE World Blitz Championship". ChessBase.com. 12 September 2006. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  15. ↑ "World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2012". The Week in Chess. 2012-07-10. Archived from the original on 15 October 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  16. ↑ FIDE World Blitz Championship 2015 Chess-Results
  17. ↑ ChessBase.com – Chess News – Kateryna and Robert – pour la vie à jamais unis... Archived 2012-11-20 at the Wayback Machine.
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Awards
Preceded by
Viswanathan Anand
Levon Aronian
Magnus Carlsen		 World Blitz Chess Champion
2006
2012
2015 		Succeeded by
Vassily Ivanchuk
Lê Quang Liêm
Sergey Karjakin
Preceded by
Peter Svidler		 Russian Chess Champion
2009 		Succeeded by
Ian Nepomniachtchi
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