Role Chess Player | Name Alexandr Fier | |
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Full name Alexandr Hilario Takeda Sakai dos Santos Fier Born 11 March 1988 (age 36) Joinville, Brazil ( 1988-03-11 ) | ||
Alexandr fier x granda zuniga partida 1 chess world cup 2015 round 1
Alexandr Hilário Takeda Sakai dos Santos Fier (born 11 March 1988) is a Brazilian chess grandmaster.
Contents
- Alexandr fier x granda zuniga partida 1 chess world cup 2015 round 1
- Batavia blitz round 1 gm alexandr fier vs gm tal baron
- Biography
- Career
- References
Batavia blitz round 1 gm alexandr fier vs gm tal baron
Biography
Alexandr Fier was born in Joinville, Brazil. He is of German and Japanese descent.
Career
Fier won five gold medals at the Pan American Youth Chess Festival: in the under-10 division in 1996 and 1997, U12 in 2000, U14 in 2002 and U18 in 2005. He also won the South American Junior Championship in 2006, 2008 and 2009. Fier won the Brazilian Chess Championship in 2005. In 2006 he won the 65 Anos da Federação tournament in São Paulo.
Fier won the Open of Sants, Hostafrancs & La Bordeta in Barcelona in 2009 and 2014. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, where he was eliminated in the second round by Alexander Morozevich. Two months later, Fier won the 2nd Latin American Cup in Montevideo edging out on tiebreak Diego Flores. In the Chess World Cup 2013, Fier defeated Radoslaw Wojtaszek in round one to advance to round two, in which he lost to B. Adhiban and thus was eliminated from the competition. In 2015 he lost in the first round to Julio Granda Zuniga. In 2017 he lost the first round to Étienne Bacrot.
Fier is married to Woman Grandmaster Nino Maisuradze.