Alexandar Delchev

Alexandar Deltschew at the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden 2008
Association	Bulgaria
Born	July 15, 1971 Sofia
title	International Master (1987) Grand Master (1998)
Current  Elo rating	2550 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2669 (October 2005)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alexandar Deltschew ( Bulgarian Александър Делчев ; with the World Chess Federation FIDE Aleksander Delchev ; born July 15, 1971 in Sofia ) is a Bulgarian chess player and coach.

Life

He learned to play chess in the Levski Chess School under the teacher C. Nikolov. As a chess teacher, he teaches in the Croatian association Casper Zadar and in the Spanish Olalachess Academy . He is married to the Bulgarian women's grandmaster Emilija Dschingarowa .

successes

Alexandar Deltschew won the Bulgarian Junior Championship twice (1989 and 1990) and the Bulgarian Individual Championship three times: 1994 and 1996 in Sofia and 2001 in Tsarevo . At the 2001 World Chess Championship in Moscow he threw Gennadij Timoščenko in the first round, Alexander Beliavsky in the second round from the tournament, but was eliminated in the third round against Boris Gelfand . Three years later at the World Cup in Tripoli , he defeated Alexander Galkin in the first round and was eliminated in the second round against Wesselin Topalow . For example, he won tournaments in 1997 in Benasque , 2001 in Cullera in the province of Valencia , Nice and Caen , 2002 in Teramo and Saint-Affrique , 2003 in Bošnjaci , Ljubljana , Subotica , Porto San Giorgio in the province Ascoli Piceno , Albacete and Genoa , 2004/05 in Reggio nell'Emilia , 2005 in Navalmoral de la Mata in the province of Cáceres and Bad Wiessee , 2006 in Thorigny in the Département Vendée and Balaguer , 2007 in Badalona , Lleida , Tarragona and Zadar , 2008 in Sort and 2013 again in Bad Wiessee.

With the Bulgarian national team, he took part in eight chess Olympiads between 1994 and 2012 with a total result of 53 points from 82 games (+36 = 34 −12), with an individual silver medal at the 2008 Chess Olympiad for his result of 8 points from 9 games was awarded on the fourth board. He is the captain of the Sudanese national team at the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi . Between 1999 and 2011 he played at six European team championships with a result of 29.5 out of 49 (+17 = 25 −7), with an individual bronze medal in Heraklion in 2007 for his result of 5.5 out of 8 on the fourth board.

He played club chess in Bulgarian (for Lokomotive Plovdiv and Naiden Woinow , with whom he took part twice in the European Club Cup ), Croatian (for Casper Zadar ), French (until 2006 for the Club de Echiquier Niçois , from 2007 to 2013 for the Club de Marseille Echecs , with whom he was team champion in the 2010/11 season ), Serbian-Montenegrin, Romanian, Spanish (for CA Solvay , with whom he became champion in 2015 ), Macedonian (for SK Alkaloid Skopje , with whom he also played in 2006 on European Club Cup), Catalan (for Balaguer ), German (for SV Deggendorf ), Israeli and Kosovar (for KSH Expik Prishtinë , participation in the European Club Cup 2015) leagues. Deltschew has played for Cercle d'échecs de Nyon in the Swiss Bundesliga since the 2015/16 season .

In 1987 he received the title of International Master and has been a Grand Master since 1998 . He has been FIDE Senior Trainer since 2016. Alexandar Deltschew's highest rating to date was 2669 in October 2005. At that time, he was 36th in the FIDE world rankings.

Publications

• The Safest Sicilian: A Black Repertoire with 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 . Chess Stars Publishing, Sofia 2006, ISBN 954-8782-45-6 .
  • Together with the long-time Bulgarian national coach IM Semko Semkow . A revised new edition was published in 2008 by the same publisher.
• The Safest Grünfeld . Chess Stars Publishing, Sofia 2011, ISBN 978-954-8782-81-4 .
  • Together with the Swedish GM Evgeny Agrest . A revised new edition was published by Alexandar Deltschew as a single author in 2019 by the same publisher under the title The Safest Grünfeld Reloaded .
• The Modern Reti: An Anti-Slav Repetoire . Chess Stars Publishing. Sofia 2012, ISBN 978-954-8782-87-6 .
• The Most Flexible Sicilian: A Repertoire based on 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 . Chess Stars Publishing. Sofia 2014, ISBN 978-954-8782-97-5 .
  • Together with Semko Semkow.
• Understanding the Queen's Gambit Accepted: A Black Repertoire . Chess Stars Publishing, Sofia 2015, ISBN 978-619-7188-05-9 .
  • Together with Semko Semkow.
• Attacking the English / Reti: An Active Repertoire for Black . Chess Stars Publishing, Sofia 2016, ISBN 978-619-7188-09-7 .
  • Together with Semko Semkow.
• Bc4 against the Open Games . Chess Stars Publishing, Sofia 2018, ISBN 978-619-7188-17-2 .

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Alexandar Deltschew on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait on chessbgnet.org (Bulgarian)
2. ↑ Alexandar Deltschew's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Alexandar Deltschew's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Alexandar Deltschew's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)