Alexander Areshchenko
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Areshchenko at the 2013 Chess World Cup
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| Full name | Олександр Арещенко |
| Country |
 Ukraine
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| Born |
June 15, 1986 Luhansk, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating |
2686 (April 2017) (No. 62 in the January 2012 FIDE World Rankings) |
| Peak rating | 2720 (November 2013) |
Alexander Areshchenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Арещенко) (born June 15, 1986 in Luhansk, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster and former Ukrainian Champion, a title he won in 2005.
In 2000, he won the U-14 World Youth Chess Championship that took place in Oropesa del Mar, Spain, ahead of future Super Grandmaster Wang Yue. In 2007 he tied for 2nd–4th with Hikaru Nakamura and Emil Sutovsky in the 5th GibTelecom Chess Festival.
In 2009 he tied for 1st–4th with Humpy Koneru, Evgenij Miroshnichenko and Magesh Panchanathan in the Mumbai Mayor Cup, which he won on a tiebreak. In the same year, he tied for first with Boris Avrukh in the Zurich Jubilee Open tournament and again won the event on a tiebreak.
In 2010, he tied for 2nd–7th with Alexey Dreev, Ivan Sokolov, Vladimir Fedoseev, Dmitry Andreikin and Konstantin Sakaev at the Chigorin Memorial Tournament.
In 2011, Areshchenko tied for 1st–5th with Yuriy Kuzubov, Parimarjan Negi, Markus Ragger and Ni Hua in the 9th Parsvnath Open Tournament.
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