Kirill Alexejewitsch Alexejenko

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Kirill Alexejenko, 2015
Association RussiaRussia Russia
Born June 22, 1997
Vyborg
title Grandmaster (2015)
Current  Elo rating 2696 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating 2715 (November 2019)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Kirill Alexejewitsch Alexejenko ( Russian Кирилл Алексеевич Алексеенко ; FIDE Kirill Alekseenko ; born June 22, 1997 in Vyborg ) is a Russian chess player .

Career

As a five-year-old Alexejenko became a member of the Vyborg chess club "Favorite", before his grandfather had taught him the rules of the game. Soon after, he won numerous children's tournaments in Leningrad Oblast . In 2006 his parents moved to Saint Petersburg , where Alexejenko received better funding and the following year he was first Petersburg youth championship, then Russian youth championship U10 and finally European youth championship U10 (in Šibenik ).

In 2011 he was U14 youth world champion in Caldas Novas . In 2013 he was European Youth Champion -U16 in Budva and third at the Youth World Cup -U16 in al-Ain . At the “Czech” -Open in Pardubice 2014 he was shared second after Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu .

In 2015, the year in which he was awarded the title of Grand Master , Alexejenko won the Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg (shared with Kaido Külaots and Yevgeny Soloshenkin ) in Yerevan , in Samara ( Polugayevsky Memorial), in Jyväskylä (shared with Kaido Külaots and Yevgeny Soloshenkin ) Chanda Sandipan and Dmitri Kokarew ) as well as the city championship of Saint Petersburg together with Alexei Sensera . At the youth world championship U18 of the same year (in Porto Carras ) he won silver behind Masoud Mosadeghpour .

In 2016 Alexejenko won the Russian U20 youth championship after scoring ahead of Yuri Yelissejew , who both got 6/9 points. With 5.5 / 9 points in the “Highest League”, the qualifying tournament for the Russian “Super Championship”, held in Kolomna , he only just missed out on progress.

He had another success in October 2016 when he again won the Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg, although this year there was a very strong field of participants in which Alexejenko won with 8 points from 9 games. He referred Yevgeny Romanov , Gata Kamsky and Sergei Volkov to the next prize ranks and achieved an Elo rating of 2766. In 2017, Alexejenko won the Chigorin Memorial for the third time in a row. In December 2018, he won the Russian Cup final in Khanty-Mansiysk . In September 2019 he took part in the World Chess Cup , which was also held in Khanty-Mansiysk. Alexejenko was eliminated in the round of 16 against the eventual finalist Ding Liren .

In October 2019 he celebrated his greatest sporting success to date when he surprisingly finished third at the Grand Swiss Tournament 2019 on the Isle of Man with 7½ points from 11 games behind Wang Hao and Fabiano Caruana , but ahead of Lewon Aronjan , Magnus Carlsen and several other world class players. After the end of the FIDE Grand Prix series , in which two Russian players achieved qualifying places for the 2020 Candidates Tournament , the organizer decided to hand out a wild card to Alexejenko as the third Russian . Since Alexejenko placed directly behind Caruana at the Grand Swiss, who had already qualified as the loser of the 2019 World Cup for the Candidates Tournament and therefore had to pass on his wildcard authorization to the third-placed winner, Alexejenko was among the possible candidates for a wildcard according to the FIDE regulations.

Alexejenko won the Russian team championship 2018 and 2019 as well as the European Club Cup 2018 with Medny Vsadnik Saint Petersburg , in the Czech extra league he has been playing for GASCO Pardubice since 2018 .

Elo development

Web links

Commons : Kirill Alekseenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Первый Алексеенко ( Memento from December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 1, 2016 (Russian)
  2. ↑ Мемориал Чигорина, Санкт-Петербург. , accessed December 1, 2016 (Russian)
  3. ↑ Мемориал Чигорина , accessed December 1, 2016 (Russian)
  4. ↑ Alekseenko's Candidates Participation Confirmed As MVL Appeals With Open Letter , accessed on December 23, 2019 (English)
  5. ↑ 34th European Club Cup team line-up with individual results Mednyi Vsadnik St.Petersburg. In: chess-results.com. October 24, 2018, accessed January 16, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
personal data
SURNAME Alexejenko, Kirill Alexejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alexejenko, Kirill; Алексеенко, Кирилл Алексеевич (Russian); Alekseenko, Kirill (English, FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Vyborg