Alexander Donchenko

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Alexander Donchenko (2015)
Surname Alexander Donchenko
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born March 22, 1998
Moscow
title International Master (2012)
Grand Master (2015)
Current  Elo rating 2654 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating 2657 (August 2020)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alexander Donchenko (born March 22, 1998 in Moscow ) is a German chess player . He bears the title of Grand Master and is considered one of the greatest talents in Germany.

Personal

He is the son of Anatoly and Irina Donchenko and was born in Moscow . At the age of four, he and his parents moved to Giessen in 2002 , where they were officially naturalized on February 6, 2015 . His father is also a successful chess player with the rank of International Master who has been competing for the German Chess Federation since he moved .

Alexander Donchenko has a sister ten years older than him and attended the Liebig School in Giessen . There he passed his Abitur at the end of March 2015 .

Chess career

singles

Donchenko learned the game of chess from his father at the age of four. At the age of eight he took part in tournaments for the first time. In the early summer of 2009 he won the bronze medal in the U-12 age group at the German Youth Championships in Willingen and in November of the same year he competed at the World Youth Championships in Kemer, Turkey . There he did not get more than 6½ / 11 and a shared 30th to 43rd place in the same age group. In Oberhof he was German in May 2010 U-12 champions and reached the World Youth Championship in Greece Sithonia in the same classification to eighth place (08.11) - that he was the best participants of the 33-strong German field.

In the spring of 2012, Donchenko achieved his three standards for international championships within five weeks : in February at the 10th Festival International d'Echecs de Meurthe et Moselle in Nancy (6/9) and in March at the 83rd German Individual Championship in Osterburg (5½ / 9) as well as at the individual European championship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria . There he finished 252nd with 4/9. In Legnica , Poland , he competed again in 2013 for the individual European championship and reached the 168th place with 5/11.

After his victory in Balatonboglár in June 2014, Donchenko was listed for the first time with an Elo rating above 2500. He secured his first grandmaster norm a little later at the beginning of October with 5½ / 9 at the A tournament of the Baku Open in the Azerbaijani capital. He achieved the other two required standards in December 2014 and February 2015 when he won tournaments in Groningen (8/9) and Aarhus (7/9). In Groningen his Elo-Tournament Performance Rating (TPR) was 2803 points. He was officially awarded the grandmaster title at the end of April during the FIDE congress in Chengdu . After Arkadij Naiditsch and Falko Bindrich, at 16 years, ten months and 22 days he is the third youngest German grandmaster of all time.

One of the most prestigious tournaments in which Alexander Donchenko has taken part is the Open Master Tournament of the Biel / Bienne International Chess Festival . In 2013 he came there with 6½ / 11 on the 21st place and in 2014 with the same number of points on the 17th place, and in the latter event he was the best placed participant under 18 years of age. As part of the Dortmund Chess Days 2015, Donchenko was awarded the Ferdinand Fabra Young Talent Prize endowed with 500 euros .

In July 2020 he won an online tournament of the Association of Chess Professionals because of the COVID-19 pandemic , in which he prevailed against Gawain Jones in the final .

Tournament wins (selection)

  • 2008: II. Mini ORDIX Open U-10 in Mainz (5.5 / 7)
  • 2009: III. Mini ORDIX Open in Mainz (6/7)
  • 2009: Gießen Youth Chess Open (8/8)
  • 2009: IV. Ried-Open U-14 in Einhausen
  • 2010: Bad Bertricher Schachtage (7/9)
  • 2010: V. Ried-Open U-14 in Einhausen (4/7)
  • 2011: Giessen Chess Youth Open (6.5 / 7)
  • 2011: IV. Herborn Youth Chess Open U-16 (7/7)
  • 2012: Open Rapid Chess -Ortsmeisterschaft Buseck (5.5 / 7)
  • 2012: Tournament of the TG Wehlheiden
  • 2014: XXXII. International Balaton Chess Festival in Balatonboglár (6/10)
  • 2013: XX. Rapid Chess Open of SG 1931 Bensheim (9/11)
  • 2014: XVII. Karl Mala memorial tournament of SG Griesheim 2001 (6/7)
  • 2014: LII. Schaakfestival Groningen A-Open (8/9)
  • 2015: Aarhus Chess House GM Tournament (7/9)
  • 2016: XIV Festival international d'échecs de Meurthe-et-Moselle in Nancy (7/9)
  • 2016: Bensheim Active Chess Open of SG 1931 Bensheim in Bensheim (9.5 / 11)
  • 2017: International German Junior Championship in Ströbeck
  • 2018: V. Purtichju Open, Purtichju, France (7.5 / 9)
  • 2020: Clarion GM tournament, Budweis

team

At the age of ten he played for the second team of SK 1858 Giessen in the Hessian Association League North. At the age of eleven he had his first appearances in the first team in the Oberliga Ost Season B, with twelve he came here to the top board. From 2014 to 2016 Donchenko played for SC Hansa Dortmund in the 1st German Chess League from 2016 to 2018 for DJK Aufwärts St. Josef Aachen , and since 2018 he has been playing for SF Deizisau . In France he plays for the Club de Vandœuvre-Echecs and took part in the French team championships Top 12 2014/15 , Top 12 2016 and 2017.

Alexander Donchenko belonged to the first generation of the chess princes , the perspective and junior team of the German Chess Federation (DSB), which federal junior trainer Bernd Vökler founded in April 2010. At that time Donchenko took part in a talent inspection of the DSB in Harzgerode , in which Artur Jussupow and Thomas Pähtz worked as supervisors. He won the rapid chess tournament of the German age group seeding list best with 5/5. In the Prinzen group, the best young German players are to be specifically promoted through seminars and training courses. Donchenko has already trained with Alexander Chalifman , Daniel Fridman , Yochanan Afek , Felix Levin and Mark Dworezki, among others .

Playing on the fourth board (6½ / 9) he won the silver medal at the Mitropa Cup with the German team in Meißen in June 2013 . In the framework of this tournament he was one of Levon Aronjan’s simultaneous opponents and lost to the Armenian . In December 2014 Donchenko represented Germany on the first board at the World Youth Chess Olympiad in Győr . The team was only eleventh; he himself reached 2½ points from 5 games.

Elo development

Elo development

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dortmund.de: Chess in Dortmund turns 140 on May 12, 2015
  2. ↑ Donchenko wins ACP knockout tournament , Chessbase, July 30, 2020
  3. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)

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personal data
SURNAME Donchenko, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow