Evgeny Alekseev (chess player)

Evgeny Alekseev

Full name Evgeny Vladimirovich Alekseev
Country Russia
Born (1985-11-28) 28 November 1985
Pushkin, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2633 (April 2016)
Peak rating 2725 (September 2009)

Evgeny Vladimirovich Alekseev (Russian: Евгений Владимирович Алексеев; born 28 November 1985 in Pushkin) is a Russian chess grandmaster (2001).

He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, held in Tripoli, Libya, where he was knocked out in the first round by Utut Adianto. In 2006 he won the Russian Championship Superfinal, defeating Dmitry Jakovenko in a playoff match.[1] By winning the 2007 Aeroflot Open in Moscow,[2] 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.[3] In the same year, he played for the Russian team that won the gold medal in the European Team Chess Championship. In 2008 Alekseev won the 41st Biel Chess Festival after a playoff with Leinier Dominguez.[4]

In 2010 he played board 2 for Russia's second team at the 40th Chess Olympiad, held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia; his team finished sixth.[5] He tied for first place with Sergey Karjakin, Peter Svidler, Dmitry Jakovenko, Dmitry Andreikin and Vladimir Potkin in the 2012 Russian Championship Superfinal; after the rapid playoff to determine the winner, Alekseev finished sixth.[6] In the European Individual Chess Championship of 2013 he tied for first with 8/11 points and edged out on tiebreak Evgeny Romanov, Alexander G Beliavsky, Constantin Lupulescu, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Sergei Movsesian, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alexey Dreev and Hrant Melkumyan to place second behind the winner, Alexander Moiseenko.[7]


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

References

  1. ↑ "Evgeny Alekseev, 21, wins Russian Superfinal". ChessBase. 2006-12-16. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Aeroflot Open 2007: Evgeny Alekseev wins in style". ChessBase. 2007-02-25. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "Dortmund R7: all games drawn, Kramnik wins for the eighth time". ChessBase. 2007-07-01. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Biel R10: Alekseev catches Dominguez, wins tiebreak". ChessBase. 2008-07-31. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  5. ↑ Men's Chess Olympiad: Evgeny Alexeev. OlimpBase.
  6. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2012-08-13). "65th Russian Chess Championships 2012". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  7. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2013-05-16). "14th European Individual Championships 2013". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 18 May 2013.

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