Alexander Morozevich

Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich (Russian Александр Сергеевич Морозевич, scientific transliteration Aleksandr Sergeevič Morozevič; born July 18, 1977 in Moscow) is one of the leading Russian chess player and is one of the world leaders. He is Honored Master of Sports of Russia since 2009.

Career

Morozevich made ​​1994 headlines in the chess world when he won the Lloyds Bank tournament in London with the astonishing result of 9.5 out of 10. Previously he was already noticed by his good success, he turned in 1993 knockout tournament of Tilburg, the world-class player Michael Adams 2-0 and had in the same year by some tournament victories in Russian and Ukrainian ( he won among others in Alushta 1993 and 1994) Grandmaster tournaments earned the title of Grand Master. He played for the B team of Russia in the Chess Olympiad in Moscow in 1994, where he won bronze. At the turn of 1994/95 he won the strong tournament of Pamplona. The next few years were for the young man, however, less successful and paved with some setbacks.

Thus, his Elo rating fell at the beginning of 1998 to 2590 In this year, however, was followed by a new series of successes for Morozevich. Initially he won a strong tournament in Chisinau 8.5 from 9 These were three points ahead of Viktor Bologan and Konstantin Zakayev. In the same year he won the Russian Championship in St. Petersburg before Pyotr Svidler. Likewise, he won this year's Russian Cup in Samara, shared with Vadim Zvyagintsev. At the end of the year he won the gold medal with Russia at the Chess Olympiad in Elista and contributed significantly with his excellent result ( 6, -0 = 4) to that. As a result of soaring Morozevich received on the next rating list a number of 2723 and climbed to 5th place in the world. For the election of Chess Oscar for 1998, the Russian newspaper 64 he had indeed Viswanathan Anand let go first, but he landed a spot ahead of world champion Garry Kasparov.

Since 1999 he has been a regular guest at the elite tournaments of the super grandmasters. Its extremely risky and imaginative style brings with it that he rarely gets into these tournaments on the highest places, but every opponent is highly dangerous. Among his major successes in recent years include his victories in Biel 2003 (8 of 10 ) and 2004 (7.5 out of 10). Moreover, he proved by his participation in the traditional combined blindfold chess / chess tournament in Monte Carlo show that he is an excellent blind chess player. The blind chess tournament he won in 2002, 2003 was second behind Vladimir Kramnik and won it again in 2004. 2002 submitted its combined result (15 of 22) for the tournament victory, in 2004, he shared with Kramnik ( each 14.5 out of 22) the first place. In 2006 he won in this tournament again win the tournament ( 14.5 out of 22) and was in the blindfold chess discipline winner again ( 9.5 out of 11). He was one of eight participants in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 in San Luis / Argentina and took 4th place there in 2006 he won for the third time after 2003 and 2004, the Grand Master Tournament in Biel. Remarkably there 's at this level unusually low draw ratio: He won seven games, lost two (both against Magnus Carlsen ) and played only once in a draw. End of 2006, Morozevich won clearly with 6 points from 7 games ( 5, -0 = 2) a round-robin tournament of category 17 in Pamplona before Dmitri Yakovenko and Alexei Shirov.

In 2007 he finished in February of second place at the heavily occupy Tournament of Morelia / Linares and in September at the FIDE World Championship in Mexico City in sixth place ( among eight participants). In December he won in Moscow, the Russian Championship with 8 points from 11 games and an Elo performance of 2817 after some weaker results he won in July 2011, again a well- respected league. At the semifinals of the Russian Cup in Taganrog, he came with 8 points from 11 games on the undivided first place. In the World Chess Cup 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk, he failed in the 3rd round with 0.5-1.5 Alexander Grishchuk. In October 2011, Morozevich won the Governor's Cup in Saratov with 8.5 points from 11 games and an Elo performance of 2917th

24 August 2008 Morozevich was number one of the unofficial live world rankings.

In 2007 he published a book on the popular made ​​by him Chigorin Defence to the Queen's Gambit: The Chigorin Defence According to Morozevich (ISBN 90-5691-200-3 ).

Chess team

National

Morozevich represented Russia 1994-2008 in seven Chess Olympiads in 1998, 2000 and 2002 Olympic champion. He took 2003-2013 in five European Team Championships and won it in 2003 and 2007, he also won in 2005 and 2010 with the Russian selection, the World Team Championship.

Chess club

Morozevich won the 2004, 2005 and 2007 with Tomsk - 400, the Russian team championship. In the German Chess Bundesliga he played from 1998 to 2000 at SV Wattenscheid and in the season 2001/ 02 for the SG - 1868 Alekhine Solingen, in the British Four Nations Chess League he had from 1999 to 2004 a total of seven missions in Wood Green. The Bosnian Premijer League won Morozevich 2008 with the ŠK Bosna Sarajevo.

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