Country Russia Role Chess Player | Peak ranking No. 3 (May 2014) Name Alexander Grischuk | |
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Full name Alexander Igorevich Grischuk Born | ||
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Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (Russian: Алекса́ндр И́горевич Грищу́к, Aleksandr Igorevich Grishchuk; born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster who was the 2009 Russian champion. He has won two team gold medals and one individual bronze medal at the Chess Olympiad. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the 2013 World Team Chess Championship in Antalya. Grischuk is also a three-time world champion in blitz chess.
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- Chess career
- Blitz chess
- Personal life
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Chess career
In the 2000 FIDE World Chess Championship, Grischuk reached the semifinals, losing to Alexei Shirov. In the 2004 FIDE World Chess Championship he made it to the quarterfinals, where he lost 3–1 to eventual champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov.
Grischuk 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) and Sergei Rublevsky (tied at +1 −1 =4, winning the rapid playoff +2 −0 =1), to advance to the eight-player 2007 FIDE World Chess Championship. In that tournament he scored 5½ out of 14, placing last in the eight-player field.
In 2009, Grischuk won the Russian Chess Championship. Also that year he won the Linares tournament on tiebreak over Vassily Ivanchuk. In 2010, he finished second to Veselin Topalov in Linares.
Grischuk finished third in the 2008-10 FIDE Grand Prix, qualifying him as the first alternate for the Candidates Tournament of the 2012 World Chess Championship cycle. Upon the withdrawal of world No. 2 Magnus Carlsen from the candidates tournament, Grischuk was appointed to take his place. In the candidates tournament, Grischuk was seeded 6th out of eight players, and faced Levon Aronian in the first round. After splitting the four regular games 2–2, Grischuk won the rapid playoff 2½–1½ to advance to the semifinals, where he faced world No. 4 and former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. Grischuk won the blitz playoff by 1½–½ to advance to the final, where he faced 2009 Chess World Cup winner Boris Gelfand for the right to play Viswanathan Anand for the World Championship. After drawing the first five games, Gelfand won the final game to win the match, 3½–2½.
Grischuk played in the 2013 Candidates Tournament in London from 15 March to 1 April. He finished sixth, with a score of 6½/14 points (+1=11-2).
In November 2014 he took first place with 5½/7 points in the Tashir Chess Tournament in Memory of Tigran Petrosian in Moscow. This enabled him to cross the 2800 Elo rating mark. In July 2016, Grischuk won a four-game match against Ding Liren in Wenzhou, 2½–1½.
In February 2017 Grischuk tied for first place with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the first event of the FIDE Grand Prix series, held in Sharjah, UAE, taking first place on tiebreak. In July 2017, he beat Yu Yangyi 3–1 in the China-Russia Chess Grandmaster Summit Match held in Jiayuguan, China.
Blitz chess
In 2006 Grischuk won the World Blitz Chess Championship in Rishon Lezion, Israel, with 10½/15. He won his second World Blitz Championship in 2012 in Astana, Kazakhstan, with 20 points out of 30 games. In October 2015, Grischuk won the World Blitz Championship for the third time in Berlin with a score of 15½/21, half a point ahead of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Vladimir Kramnik.
Personal life
Grischuk is married to Ukrainian chess grandmaster Natalia Zhukova.
