- Alexander Grischuk
Infobox chess player
playername = Alexander Grischuk
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birthname = Alexander Igorevich Grischuk
country = RUS
datebirth = birth date and age|1983|10|31
placebirth =Moscow ,Russia
datedeath =
placedeath =
title = Grandmaster
worldchampion =
womensworldchampion =
rating = 2728
(No. 14 on the July 2008 FIDE ratings list)
peakrating = 2732 (July 2003)Alexander Grischuk (born
October 31 1983 ) is achess grandmaster fromRussia . HisFIDE rating in July 2007 was 2726, making him the world's fourteenth-ranked player.In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000 he made it to the semi finals.
In the
FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 he made it to the quarter finals, where he lost 3-1 toRustam Kasimdzhanov .He 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) andSergei Rublevsky (tied at +1-1=4, winning the rapid playoff +2-0=1), to advance to the 8 playerFIDE World Chess Championship 2007 tournament. In that tournament he scored 5.5 out of 14, placing last in the eight player field.Along with being a top-level professional, Grischuk is also known as one of the best
blitz chess players in the world, having once held the record for highest rating achieved on theInternet Chess Club . In 2006 he won theWorld Blitz Championship inRishon Lezion , Israel with 10.5 points out of 15 games, winning 10 games.Grischuk is married to the
Ukrainian WGMNatalia Zhukova .In the following game, played in 2001, Grischuk crushes one of the world's top players,
Evgeny Bareev in only seventeen moves:* 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Nh6 6. Bd3 cxd4 7. Bxh6 gxh6 8. cxd4 Bd7 9. Nc3 Qb6 10. Bb5 Rg8 11. O-O Nxe5 12. Nxe5 Bxb5 13. Qh5 Rg7 14. Rfe1 Rd8 15. Nxb5 Qxb5 16. Nxf7 Rxf7 17. Rxe6+ 1-0
One possible continuation of the game is:
* 17...Be7 18. Rxe7+ Kxe7 19. Re1+ Kd6 20. Qxf7 Qd7 21. Qf6+ Kc7 22. Re7 winning a queen for a rook.External links
*fide|id=4126025|name=Alexander Grischuk
*chessgames player|id=17279
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