Alexander Shabalov

For the Russian football player, see Aleksandr 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 2528 (April 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 and a four-time winner of the United States Chess Championship (1993, 2000, 2003, 2007). He also won or tied for first place six times in the U.S. Open Chess Championship (1993, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2015).

In 2002 he tied for first place at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow with Gregory Kaidanov, Alexander Grischuk, Aleksej Aleksandrov and Vadim Milov. 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.

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.

In 2015 he was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame.

Notable games

References

  1. Alexander Shabalov FIDE rating history, 1986-2001 at OlimpBase.org
  2. "Continental Absolute Chess Championship Americas 2009". Chessdom. 2009-08-04. Retrieved 4 January 2016.

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Achievements
Preceded by
Patrick Wolff
United States Chess Champion
1993 (with Alex Yermolinsky)
Succeeded by
Boris Gulko
Preceded by
Boris Gulko
United States Chess Champion
2000-2001 (with Joel Benjamin and Yasser Seirawan)
Succeeded by
Larry Christiansen
Preceded by
Larry Christiansen
United States Chess Champion
20032004
Succeeded by
Hikaru Nakamura
Preceded by
Alexander Onischuk
United States Chess Champion
2007
Succeeded by
Yuri Shulman


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