Evgeny Alekseev (chess player)
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Alekseev at Chess World Cup 2013
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| Full name | Evgeny Vladimirovich Alekseev |
| Country | Russia |
| Born | 28 November 1985 Pushkin, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2633 (May 2024) |
| 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 | Russian Chess Champion 2006 |
Succeeded by Alexander Morozevich |
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External links
- Evgeny Alekseev chess games at 365Chess.com
- Evgeny Alekseev player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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