Alexander Grischuk
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| Full name | Alexander Igorevich Grischuk |
| Country | Russia |
| Born |
October 31, 1983 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating |
2750 (March 2017) (No. 14 in the November 2015 FIDE World Rankings) |
| Peak rating | 2810 (December 2014) |
| Peak ranking | No. 3 (May 2014) |
Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (Russian: Алекса́ндр И́горевич Грищу́к; born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster and Russian champion in 2009. He has won two team gold medals and one individual bronze medal at Chess Olympiad. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the 2013 World Team Chess Championship in Antalya.
Grischuk is also three-time world champion in blitz chess.
In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000, Grischuk made it to the semifinals, losing to Alexei Shirov. In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 he made it to the quarter finals, where he lost 3–1 to eventual champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov.
Grischuk finished in the top 10 in the 2005 FIDE World Cup, which qualified him for the 2007 Candidates Tournament in May–June 2007. He won his matches against Vladimir Malakhov (+2 −0 =3) and Sergei Rublevsky (tied at +1 −1 =4, winning the rapid playoff +2 −0 =1), to advance to the eight-player FIDE World Chess Championship 2007 tournament. In that tournament he scored 5½ out of 14, placing last in the eight-player field.
In 2009, Grischuk won the Russian Chess Championship. In the same year he became the champion of Linares 2009, winning on tie-break over Vassily Ivanchuk because he had more wins. In 2010, he finished second in Linares to Veselin Topalov.
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