Alexander Morozevich
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| Full name | Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich |
| Country | Russia |
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July 18, 1977 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2675 (February 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2788 (July 2008) |
| Peak ranking | No. 2 (July 2008) |
Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich (Russian: Александр Серге́евич Морозе́вич; born July 18, 1977) is a Russian chess Grandmaster.
Morozevich is a two-time World Championship Candidate (2005, 2007), two-time Russian Champion and has represented Russia in seven Olympiads, winning numerous team and board medals.
He has won both the Melody Amber (alone 2002, shared 2004, 2006, 2008) and Biel (2003, 2004, 2006) tournaments several times.
Morozevich is known for his aggressive and unorthodox playing style. His peak ranking was second in the world in July 2008.
His first win in an international tournament was in 1994, when at the age of 17 he won the Lloyds Bank tournament in London with a 9½ out of 10 score. In 1994 he also won the Pamplona tournament, a victory he repeated in 1998.
In 1997 Morozevich was the top seed at the World Junior Chess Championship, but lost to the eventual champion, American Tal Shaked in a bishop and knight checkmate. That same year, Morozevich participated in the FIDE World Championship, eliminating former World Champion Vassily Smyslov beaten in the second round by Lembit Oll.
In 1999 Morozevich played in his first super-tournament in Sarajevo and finished in fourth with 5½ points of 9.
In beginning of 2000 Morozevich participated at the Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee and finished fifth out of 14 players. The event was won by Kasparov ahead of Kramnik, Anand and Leko.
In the same year he participated in the FIDE K.O. world championship played in New Delhi. Due to his rating he was seeded directly into the second round in which he eliminated Milos with the score of 2–0, then he proceeded to beat Evgeny Vladimirov 1½–½ in the third round before finally being eliminated in the fourth round by Vladislav Tkachiev.
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