- Alexei Fedorov
Infobox chess player
playername = Alexei Fedorov
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birthname = Alexei Fedorov
country = BLR
datebirth = birth date and age|1972|9|27
placebirth =Mogilev ,USSR cite web|url=http://www.chess.by/men/fedorov.html|title=Alexei Fedorov|language=Russian]
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title = Grandmaster (1995)
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womensworldchampion =
rating = 2603
peakrating = 2684
(No. 14 on the January 2000 FIDE ratings list)Alexei Fedorov ( _ru. Алексей Фёдоров; _be. Аляксей Фёдараў/Aljaxej Fjodarau; born
September 27 ,1972 ) is achess grandmaster. Until 1992 he played for theSoviet Union , then briefly forRussia and from 1993 for theBelarus chess association.Fedorov became an
international master in 1992 and a grandmaster in 1996. He won theBelarusian Chess Championship in 1993, 1995, 2005 and 2008 and participated in sixChess Olympiads with a performance of 50.8% (+16=29-15). [ [http://www.olimpbase.org/players/xpzp55rf.html OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Alexei Fedorov] ] . He took part in the FIDE world Chess Championship in 1999, 2000 and 2002. In 1999 he was knocked out in the fourth round, while in 2000 and 2002 he was knocked out in the first round.Fedorov is considered to be an opening specialist on the
King's Gambit and theSicilian Defence, Dragon Variation .elected Tournament results
* Participated at the prestigious
Corus chess tournament in 2001. Won byGarry Kasparov , Fedorov ended shared 10th place [ [http://www.coruschess.com/tournament.php?id=64&idgroep=62 Corus Chess history - Tournament ] ] .
* Shared first atAeroflot Open , 2003 (third place on tie-break)
* First at the 4th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament in 2006 (with 9 points out of 10) [ [http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2903 ChessBase.com - Chess News - 4th Parsvnath GM tournament in Delhi ] ]References
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