Alexander Moiseenko
| Alexander Moiseenko | |
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Alexander Moiseenko, Warsaw 2013
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| Country | Ukraine |
| Born |
17 May 1980 Severomorsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2670 (April 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2726 (September 2011) |
Alexander Moiseenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Моісеєнко, Oleksandr Moiseyenko; born 17 May 1980) is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster and the 2013 European champion. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the Chess Olympiads of 2004 and 2010.
Born in Severomorsk to a Ukrainian family, he moved with his family to Kharkiv, Ukraine, when he was nine. Moiseenko won the World Championship for boys Under-16 in Spain in 1996, and was awarded the International Master title. He improved his standard steadily over the next several years. He placed 2nd at the Ukrainian Junior Championship, Kharkiv 1998, with 7/11. In the European Junior Chess Championship of 1998, held in Mureck, he scored 6.5/9 for a shared second place.
He tied for first place in the 1999 Ukrainian Chess Championship in Alushta. In the Ukrainian Grandmaster event of 1999, he finished clear first with 10/13, earning a Grandmaster norm. He then tied for first place at Orel 1999 with 8/11. In the Krasnodar Kuban event of 1999, he won with 7.5/11. This set of excellent results earned him the Grandmaster title. He was second in the Ukrainian Junior Championship at Kharkiv 2000 with 7.5/11.
In 2003 Moiseenko scored 8.5/13 at the European Individual Chess Championship in Istanbul for a shared 4-11th place. This qualified him into the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 in Tripoli. In the latter, he defeated Sergey Dolmatov in round one by 1.5-0.5 to advance. In round two, he defeated Victor Bologan by 2.5-1.5 in playoffs. He was knocked out in round three by Vladimir Akopian by 0.5-1.5.
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