Alexander Beliavsky
Alexander Beliavsky (Ukrainian Олександр Белявський scientific transliteration Olexandr Beljavs'kyj; born December 17, 1953 in Lviv ) is a Ukrainian- Slovenian chess master. He was one of the best players in the world in the 1980s.
Career
In 1973 Beliavsky was Junior World Champion U20 in Stockton -on-Tees. 1975 FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title. He won four times the USSR Championship, which was considered the most powerful country in the world championship. 1981 and 1986 he won the very strong tournament in Tilburg. One of his greatest successes came in 1993 in Belgrade, when he won the Tournament of very high standard before the eventual World Champion Vladimir Kramnik.
1983 Beliavsky difference in the quarterfinals of candidate fights against the eventual world champion Garry Kasparov 3:6 from. In the FIDE World Championship in Tripoli in 2004 Beliavsky came down to the second round where he lost to Alexander Grishchuk. After the collapse of the Soviet Union Beliavsky, the 1992 had not yet played for the Ukraine at the Chess Olympiad took 1996 his new residence in Slovenia and represents since his new homeland on the first board on the chess Olympiads.
Overall, it took from 1982 to 2010 at 13 Chess Olympiads. With the Soviet team, he won four gold medals, and indeed the first time at the Chess Olympiad 1982 in Lucerne, then in 1984 and 1988 respectively in Thessaloniki, as well as at the Chess Olympiad in 1990 in Novi Sad. In 1982 and 1984 he received the bronze medal in the individual competition. 1992 in Manila, he fought for Ukraine. Since 1996 he is a regular in the team of Slovenia.
Beliavsky also played with several teams in the German Chess League.
Beliavsky also works as a chess coach. In 1993 he was one of the seconds of Garry Kasparov in the match against Nigel Short, in 2005, he supervised Alexander Morozevich at the FIDE World Cup. He also coached the German Grand Master Arkady Naiditsch. In 2004 he received the title of FIDE Senior Trainer. He wrote several chess books, but he works mostly with Adrian Mihalčišin together.
His Elo rating is 2616 (as of September 2011), that he is behind Luka Lenic on the 2nd place of the Slovenian rankings.