Alexander Morozevich
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| Image:Alexander Morozevich grandmaster.jpg | ||
| Full name | Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich | |
| Country | Image:Flag of Russia.svg Russia | |
| Born | July 18 1977 Moscow, Russia | |
| Title | Grandmaster | |
| FIDE rating | 2765 (No. 4 on the January 2008 FIDE ratings list) | |
| Peak rating | 2765 (January 2008) | |
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Alexander Morozevich (Russian: Александр Морозе́вич) (born July 18, 1977) is a Russian chess player. In the January 2008 FIDE list, he had an ELO rating of 2765, making him number 4 in the world.[1]
Morozevich is noted for employing unusual openings. Against the Queen's Gambit, for instance, he has often played the Chigorin Defence (1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6), and more recently the Albin Countergambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5); both systems are hardly ever seen at the top level. He is also well known for preferring complicated rather than clear positions.
Among his most notable results are 7.5/10 at the 2000 Chess Olympiad (winning Bronze Medal for board 2 and gaining the highest Elo performance rating at 2803.7) and 7/11 at the 2002 Olympiad (against considerably weaker opposition, for a performance rating of 2663); first place in the combined blindfold and rapid standings at the 2002 Amber tournament with 15/22, joint second with 13.5/22 in the same event in 2003 (including wins in both his games against Vladimir Kramnik), and joint first with Kramnik with 14.5/22 in that event in 2004; first place in Biel three times: with 8/10 in 2003, with 7.5/10 in 2004, and with 7.5/10 again in 2006; joint first with Peter Svidler in the 2003 Russian Championship with 7/9 (Svidler took the title with a better tie-break score) and first place in the same event in 2007 with 8/11.
His first win in an international tournament was in 1994 when at the age of 17 he won the Lloyds Bank tournament in London with a spectacular 9.5 out of 10 score.
In September 2005, Morozevich played in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 in San Luis, taking fourth place behind Veselin Topalov, Vishwanathan Anand and Peter Svidler.
His San Luis result earned him direct entry to the World Chess Championship 2007. In that tournament he scored 6 out of 14, placing 6th out of eight players. He was the only player who managed to defeat the reigning world champion Vladimir Kramnik (which was also Kramnik's only defeat in 2007).
In December 2006, he won the strong Ciudad de Pamplona tournament with a score of 6 (of 7) and an amazing ELO performance of 2951.[2] He shared second place with Magnus Carlsen behind Anand at the 2007 Linares tournament.
Morozevich is also considered to be the best blindfold player in the world. He confirmed that status in the Amber blindfold tourneys where each year most of the best players in the world participate:
2002 first 9/11, 2003 shared second 7/11, 2004 first 8.5/11, 2005 shared second 6/11, 2006 first 9.5/11,
2007 shared second 7/11| Preceded by Peter Svidler | Russian Chess Champion 1998 | Succeeded by Konstantin Sakaev |
| Preceded by Evgeny Alekseev | Russian Chess Champion 2007 | Succeeded by TBD |
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[edit] External links
- FIDE rating card for Alexander Morozevich
- Alexander Morozevich Morozevich Digest (Official website,there is Russian and English version)
- Alexander Morozevich download 419 of his games in pgn format.
- Alexander Morozevich at ChessGames.combr:Aleksandr Morozevitch
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