Alexander Onischuk

Alexander Onischuk
Alexander Onsichuk plays a game for the U.S.
Full name	Олександр Онищук
Country	United States
Born	(1975-09-03) September 3, 1975 Sevastopol, Crimea
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2682 (August 2017) (No. 76 in the January 2012 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating	2701 (July 2010)

Alexander Onischuk (born September 3, 1975) is an 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 sixth-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. Onischuk has competed six times in the Chess Olympiad for the United States team from 2004-2014.

In the fall of 2012, Onischuk became the head coach at the 2-time reigning national collegiate chess champion ^[1] Texas Tech University.

Under his coaching, the Texas Tech University Chess Program has won the 2015-2016 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship and qualified three times for the Final Four.

His son, Philip Onischuk, was born in 2003.

References

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

External links

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Alexander Onischuk player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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Preceded by Hikaru Nakamura	United States Chess Champion 2006	Succeeded by Alexander Shabalov

American chess masters by birth year
pre-1910	Weaver W. Adams David Graham Baird John Washington Baird Newell W. Banks Jacob Bernstein A. T. Bigelow Horace Bigelow Roy Turnbull Black Boris Blumin Constant Ferdinand Burille Oscar Chajes Irving Chernev Eugene Delmar Leonids Dreibergs Louis Eisenberg Arpad Elo Samuel Factor Julius Finn Albert Fox Selim Franklin James Grundy Milton Hanauer James Hanham Hermann Helms Albert Hodges Israel Albert Horowitz Henry Hosmer Clarence Howell Charles Jaffe Nicolai Jasnogrodsky Max Judd
1910s	Sidney Norman Bernstein John W. Collins Arthur Dake Arnold Denker Reuben Fine Samuel Reshevsky
1920s	Pal Benko Hans Berliner Arthur Bisguier Robert Byrne Russ Chauvenet Bill Hook
1930s	William Addison Curt Brasket Donald Byrne Kenneth Clayton John Curdo Leroy Dubeck Larry Evans Arthur Feuerstein
1940s	Jude Acers Lev Alburt Boris Baczynsky Ralph Betza Walter Browne Roman Dzindzichashvili Edward W. Formanek Bobby Fischer Bill Goichberg Mike Goodall John Grefe Boris Gulko Dan Harrington Asa Hoffman Randall Hough
1950s	Randy Bauer Calvin Blocker Larry Christiansen Mark Diesen William John Donaldson James Eade Esther Epstein John Fedorowicz Nick de Firmian David S. Goodman Dmitry Gurevich Dan Heisman Ron Henley Alexander Ivanov Gregory Kaidanov
1960s	Maurice Ashley Joel Benjamin Maxim Dlugy Jaan Ehlvest Ben Finegold Alexander Fishbein Alexander Goldin Yasser Seirawan
1970s	Ilya Gurevich Gata Kamsky Alexander Onischuk Julio Becerra Rivero Yury Shulman Alexander Stripunsky
1980s	Varuzhan Akobian Salvijus Bercys Vinay Bhat Sergey Erenburg Florin Felecan Joshua Friedel Timur Gareyev Aleksandr Lenderman Hikaru Nakamura Alejandro Ramírez
1990s	Marc Tyler Arnold Fabiano Caruana Akshat Chandra Kayden Troff Robert Hess Conrad Holt Evan Ju Daniel Naroditsky Ray Robson Samuel Shankland Wesley So
2000s	John M. Burke Awonder Liang Maximillian Lu Samuel Sevian Jeffery Xiong

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