Alexander Ivanov (chess player)

Alexander Ivanov
Association	Soviet Union (until 1988) United States (since 1989)
Born	May 1, 1956 Omsk , Soviet Union
title	International Master (1988) Grand Master (1991)
Current  Elo rating	2469 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating	2606 (January 2006)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alexander Ivanov ( Russian Александр Владимирович Иванов / Alexander Wladimirowitsch Iwanow; born May 1, 1956 in Omsk ) is an American chess player and coach with roots in the Soviet Union.

Life

Ivanov learned to play chess from his father, a journalist from Arkhangelsk . When he was ten years old, he started attending a chess section in the Pioneer Palace. He was trained by Jan Karbasnikow, who also looked after Volodymyr Malanyuk and Natalja Konopljowa. Ivanov won the All-Union Youth Games in Vilnius with the Russian team in 1973 and showed the best result on the second board with 8 points out of 8. The victory in the team cup of the sports associations in Moscow with Burewestnik ( Vasily Smyslow , Mark Taimanow , Yuri Balashov and other players) followed next year. With 5.5 points out of 9, Ivanov did best on the youth board. In 1974 he received the title of Master of Sports of the USSR , the norm for which he met in a semifinals of the Russian championship. At the U20 European Championships 1974/75 in Groningen , he was first in Group B.

In the 1970s, Ivanov graduated from Lomonosov University in Moscow with a degree in economics . His other life stations in the Soviet Union were Gorki and Klaipėda . With the Soviet selection, he finished second at the U26 team world championships in Mexico City in 1978 and first place in 1980. In 1980 he was a shared winner with Edvīns Ķeņģis of the All-Union Young Masters tournament in Riga . In 1981 and 1983 he took part with the Lithuanian team in the Soviet team championship in Moscow. He won the individual championship of the Baltic republics in Pärnu in 1982 and in 1987, shared with Lembit Oll and Leonid Bassin, in Kuldīga .

In 1988 he moved to the United States. At the Biel Open International 1989 he shared third place behind Matthias Wahls and Lev Gutman . In 1988 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master , and three years later he became a Grand Master . He had earned one of the GM norms at the Arnold Cup in Gausdal in 1991 . In August 1992 he shared first place with Anatoly Karpov and Boris Gulko at the well-staffed rapid chess tournament in Moscow, then lost the playoff and finished third. At the end of 1995 he shared victory with Nick de Firmian and Patrick Wolff at the US championship in Modesto . In 1998 he became the Pan American champion in San Felipe (Venezuela) . In 1989, 2000, 2001 and 2006 he shared first place at the World Open . At the 4th American Continental 2007 in Cali , he was also split first. He took part four times in the knockout tournaments for the FIDE World Championship and four times in the Chess World Cup, but never got past the second round. In 2002, he played on the second Reserve Board of the US team at the Chess Olympiad in Bled . He has played in the United States Chess League for the New England Nor'easters since 2012 . With his Elo rating of 2600, he was ranked 60th in the world in January 1997.

As a coach, Ivanov supported the US women's team, Vasily Smyslow and Gata Kamsky . He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife, International Women's Champion Esther Epstein .

Web links

Commons : Alexander Ivanov  - collection of pictures

• Replayable chess games by Alexander Ivanov on 365Chess.com
• GM Alexander Ivanov at uschess.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 100.
2. ↑ Alexander Ivanov's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)