Alexei Wassiljewitsch Sarana

Alexei Sarana, 2018
Surname	Alexei Wassiljewitsch Sarana
Association	Russia
Born	January 26, 2000 Moscow, Russia
title	International Master (2016) Grand Master (2017)
Current  Elo rating	2654 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating	2664 (November 2019)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alexei Wassiljewitsch Sarana ( Russian Алексей Васильевич Сарана́ , scientific transliteration Aleksej Vasil'evič Sarana ; born January 26, 2000 in Moscow ) is a Russian chess player .

Life

Sarana learned the rules of chess when she was five. At the age of seven he had his first successes in youth tournaments at district level in his hometown Moscow. In 2008 he became the Russian youth champion U8 and then belonged to the leading youth in Russia throughout his youth. He took part in numerous world and European championships for young people. His first coaches were Sergei Smirnow and Vladimir Below .

Sarana has been studying at the State Academy of Geology and Mining of the Urals Region (UGGU) in Yekaterinburg since 2018 .

Chess career

Sarana was awarded the Grand Master's title in 2017 . He achieved the standards for this in Minsk 2014, at the Aeroflot Open 2015 in Moscow and at the Mikhail Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg in 2016.

In January 2018, Sarana won the Dvorkovich Memorial in Taganrog . In July 2018 in Yaroslavl he won the qualifying tournament for the Russian Championship, the "Highest League", ahead of Grigory Oparin and Ernesto Inarkiev ; in August 2018 he won the "Eurasian Cup" in Yekaterinburg ahead of Vladislav Artemjew . This year he was appointed to the Russian national team for the first time and at the end of May scored 4 points from six games in the China-Russia competition in Qinhuangdao . In his first final of the Russian Championship in Satka in September 2018, Sarana scored 5 points from eleven games and shared eighth place with Daniil Dubow .

In July 2019, Sarana qualified again for the final of the Russian Championship. He shared first place with Alexander Predke in the "Highest League", which was again held in Yaroslavl (both achieved 6½ points from nine games; Sarana was second).

He plays club chess for the SK Sima-Land Oblast Sverdlovsk and since 2019 for the Schachfreunde Berlin .

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Alexei Wassiljewitsch Sarana on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Алексей Сарана: Персона Дня - 01/26/2019 (Russian)
2. ↑ Ход конем: Шахматист из поселения Рязановское победил на турнире Высшей Лиги чемпионата (Russian)
3. ↑ Алексей Сарана: Заниматься шахматами и не отчаиваться! (Russian)
4. ↑ Awarding of the title at FIDE (English)
5. ↑ Alexey Sarana wins Russian Higher League
6. ↑ Матч Китай - Россия. Циньхуандао. (Russian)
7. ↑ Andreikin and Pogonina win Russian championships
8. ↑ Высшая лига чемпионата России, Ярославль, 06/26/2019 - 07/05/2019 (Russian)