Alexander Moiseenko

Oleksandr Oleksandrowytsch Mojissejenko (Ukrainian Олександр Олександрович Моїсеєнко, spelling the World Chess Federation FIDE Alexander Moiseenko; born May 17, 1980 in Severomorsk, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He is a trained lawyer.

Mojissejenko learned chess from his mother and joined at the age of six years, the chess group of pioneer palace of Severomorsk. In 1989 he moved with his family to Kharkiv in today's Ukraine. His first coach was V. Viskin. At age 17, he began his law studies at the law school in Kharkiv, which is named after Yaroslav the Wise. In strong local chess club, for the later GM Eljanow and Andreev played, he was trained by the former USSR champion GM Sawon.

1998 Mojissejenko International Master (IM ) and 2000 Grand Master (GM). His previous highest Elo rating, he reached in September 2009 with 2694th with the Ukrainian national team, he has taken part in four Chess Olympiads and won at the Chess Olympiads in 2004 and 2010. Overall, it reached 18.5 points in 27 games with these participants. He has played for Turkish, Spanish and Israeli league teams.

His tournament successes as a single player include the Canadian Open (2003, 2004 and 2008), the tournament in Capelle -la -Grande (2006), which he won with 7.5 points from 9 games, the World Open (2008) in Philadelphia as well as the Aeroflot Open ( 2009) in Moscow, in which he reached the shared first place with Etienne Bacrot with 6.5 points from 9 games. In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 in Tripoli, he reached after wins over Sergei and Viktor Bologan Dolmatow the third round, where he defeated the Armenians Vladimir Hakobyan.

2013 he was in Legnica with 8 points from 11 games due to better fine- rating before nine point same players chess champions. He also qualified for the World Chess Cup 2013.