Alexander Vladimirovich Ivanov (born May 1, 1956) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster. Born in Omsk, present-day Russia, he moved to the United...
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2010 Summer Youth Olympics Alexander Ivanov (chess player) (born 1956), Russian-born American chess player Aleksandr Ivanov (javelin thrower) (born 1982)...
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This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. Jacob Aagaard (Denmark...
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Alena Ivanova, Kazakhstani volleyball player Alexander Ivanov (disambiguation) – several people Alexey Ivanov (disambiguation) – several people Alina...
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Robert Lee Hess (born December 19, 1991) is an American chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 2009. In May 2012, his FIDE rating...
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The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess. The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing...
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list of Russian chess players lists people from Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Empire who are primarily known as chess players. The majority...
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Carissa Yip (category American female chess players)
when she defeated Alexander Ivanov at the New England Open. At ten years of age, she was the youngest female chess player ever to beat a grandmaster....
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national chess championship sanctioned by US Chess that has been held 27 times since 1982. The event is a Swiss tournament usually restricted to players who...
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August 2024). "Krum Ivanov Georgiev, 1958-2024". ChessBase. Retrieved 8 August 2024. Ganev, Milen (31 July 2024). "Chess player Krum Georgiev died"....
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per player (now 3 minutes), hence the "5-minute game" moniker. The term "blitz chess" would not be coined until the 1960s. The first blitz chess tournament...
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London. Reuben Fine in The World's Great Chess Games describes it as the first great immortal game of chess. Alexander McDonnell sacrifices his queen for two...
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is an annual open chess tournament usually held in Philadelphia. The inaugural event was held in New York in 1973 with 732 players, and was won by Walter...
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Garry Kasparov (category Chess players from Baku)
Igor V. Ivanov to capture the sole qualifying place. Kasparov rose quickly through the FIDE world rankings. Due to an oversight by the USSR Chess Federation...
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August 1999. The championship was won by Russian Alexander Khalifman, making him the FIDE World Chess Champion. The format was a knockout tournament of...
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The Chess World Cup 2011 was a chess World Cup tournament. It was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 26 August and 21 September...
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David Navara (category Czech chess players)
Two months later, Navara participated in the FIDE World Cup. He beat Alexander Ivanov of US in the first round and was defeated by Sergei Rublevsky in the...
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The Chess World Cup 2005 served as a qualification tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007. It was held as a 128-player tournament from...
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List of Bulgarians (section Chess)
Cheparinov, chess player Antoaneta Stefanova, Women's World Chess Champion (2004) Silvio Danailov, chess player and manager Veselin Topalov, World Chess Champion...
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2578 Alexander Shabalov (USA), 2574 Michał Krasenkow (POL), 2573 Lázaro Bruzón (CUB), 2573 Šarūnas Šulskis (LTU), 2573 Alexander Ivanov (USA), 2573...
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Iran Georgi Popov (born 1941), Bulgarian chess player Georgi Alexandrov Popov (born 1937), Bulgarian chess player (GMC), member of the ICCF Bulgaria Georgi...
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Sasikiran (IND), 2573 Alexander Chernin (HUN), 2572 Gilberto Hernandez (MEX), 2572 Rafael Leitão (BRA), 2567 Alexander Ivanov (USA), 2567 Karen Asrian (ARM)...
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Candidates finalists from the previous cycle (World Chess Championship 1981). The eight players participated in a series of knockout matches. The winner...
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Lawrence Day (category Canadian chess players)
Lawrence Alexander Day (born 1 February 1949 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian chess player, author, and journalist who holds the FIDE title of International...
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USCF Grand Prix (redirect from Grand Prix chess tournaments)
Novag, a maker of chess computers. Currently, the sponsor is ChessCafe. The late Grandmaster Igor V. Ivanov won the Grand Prix of chess nine times. In more...
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The Chess World Cup 2007 served as a qualification tournament for the World Chess Championship 2010. It was held as a 128-player single-elimination tournament...
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The Chess World Cup 2009 was a 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 20 November and 14 December 2009, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia....
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the title of FIDE World Chess Champion. The intention was that the tournament winner would play the world's top-ranked player at the time, Garry Kasparov...
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Esther Epstein (category American chess players)
times. She is married to chess grandmaster Alexander Ivanov. NNCF Biography Another page on Esther Epstein at the US Chess Federation. Esther Epstein...
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Boris Spassky (category Chess players from Saint Petersburg)
January 30, 1937 – February 27, 2025) was a Russian chess grandmaster who was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972. Spassky...
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