Yevgeny Vladimirovich Alexeyev

Jewgeni Alexejew, Karlsruhe 2016
Association	Russia
Born	November 28, 1985 Pushkin
title	International Master (2000) Grand Master (2002)
Current  Elo rating	2626 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2725 (September 2009)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Evgeni Wladimirowitsch Alexejew ( Russian Евгений Владимирович Алексеев , scientific transliteration Evgenij Vladimirovič Alekseev ; born November 28, 1985 in Pushkin ) is a Russian world-class chess player . He has been the Grand Master of Russia since 2002 and the Grand Master of Russia since 2012 .

Life

Alexeyev learned chess from his father, who also became his first coach. After moving to Saint Petersburg , Alexejew was trained by various master players. He is currently working with Sergei Dolmatov . After various successes in Russian and international youth championships, a second place in the St. Petersburg championship in 2001 and a tournament victory in Tel Aviv ( shared with Kostjantyn Lerner ) in the same year, he won 2002 (in that year Alexejew won the Alexander Petrov memorial in St. Petersburg, in Tolyatti and the Hoogeveen Open ) the title of Grand Master .

Alexejew and Kramnik, Dortmund 2007

In 2004 he won the Geneva Open . 2006 Alexejew celebrated the greatest success of his career so far: He won the superfinal of the Russian championship in Moscow after a tie-break final in rapid chess against Dmitri Jakowenko with 1.5: 0.5. Both players shared first place with 7.5 out of 11 after the regular tournament.

In 2007 Alexejew won the Aeroflot Open in Moscow with a score of 7 out of 9 and at the same time received the invitation to the Dortmund Chess Days 2007, where he achieved an excellent shared second place (with Péter Lékó and Viswanathan Anand ) behind world champion Vladimir Kramnik .

National team

At the 2010 Chess Olympiad , Alexeyev played on the second board of Russia's second team. He took part in two European team championships with Russia , in 2007 he won with the team and achieved the second-best result on the fourth board, in 2009 he reached second place with the team.

societies

In the Russian team championship , Alexejew played for St. Petersburg in 2001 and 2002 , for Lada Tolyatti from 2004 to 2006 , for Ekonomist-1 Saratov from 2007 to 2013 and for Belorechensk University since 2014 . He took part in the European Club Cup nine times with St. Petersburg , Saratov and Beloretschensk . He won this with the team in 2009 and 2010 and achieved the best result on the third board in 2012. Alexejew played in the 2006/07 season in the German Chess League for TV Tegernsee . From 2011 to 2014 he played on the first board of SV Wiesbaden , in the 2012/13 season in the German Chess League . In the 2014/15 season he played for TSV Schott Mainz , since 2018 he has played for the Düsseldorf SK 1914/25 , including in the 1st Bundesliga in the 2018/19 season. In Hungary, Alexejew won in the 2007/08 season with Csuti Antal SK. Zalaegerszeg the team championship. In the Bosnian Premijer Liga he played in 2004 for ŠK Kiseljak , in Spain in 2007 for CA Cuna de Dragones-Ajoblanco Mérida and in 2008 for champions CCA CajaCanarias Santa Cruz .

Web links

Commons : Yevgeny Alexeev  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Yevgeny Wladimirowitsch Alexejew on 365Chess.com (English)
• Brief portrait on sportdaily.ru ( Memento from December 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
• Interview with Yevgeny Alexejew ( Memento of October 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, English; 185 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2007 in the Dortmund Schauspielhaus on TeleSchach
2. ↑ Yevgeny Alexejew's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Yevgeny Alexeev's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Yevgeny Alexeev's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Yevgeny Alexeev's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Yevgeny Alexeyev's results in the Bosnian Premijer League on olimpbase.org (English)