🔹 Alexei Shirov
🔹 Chess grandmaster
💢 #about_Shirov_1
♦️ Alexei Shirov is a Latvian and Spanish chess grandmaster. He was ranked number two in the world in 1994.
▪️ Full name: Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov
▪️ Country: Soviet Union Latvia
Spain (1995–2011)
▪️ Born: 4 July 1972 (age 45)
Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1990)
▪️ FIDE rating: 2644 (April 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2755 (January 2008)
▪️ Peak ranking: No. 2 (January 1994)
♦️ IM (1989); GM (1990).
♦️Alexey Dmitrievich Shirov was born in Riga in what was then Soviet Latvia. He has a distinctive aggressive and imaginative style that has won him many admirers throughout his career. He has ranked among the world's top players since 1990. He frequently worked his way deep into the World Championship cycles, coming as close to the pinnacle of chess as winning the right to challenge Garry Kasparov for the Classical World Championship, meeting Viswanathan Anand in the final of the 2000 Knockout Tournament and playing in the final match of the World Chess Cup (2007) and playing in the 2007 Candidates. He has been officially ranked as high as number 2 in the world.
♦️ Shirov became the U16 World Champion in 1988 and was runner-up in 1990 in the World Junior Championship behind Ilya M Gurevich. He won the Spanish championship in 2002 with 8.5/9.
♦️ A memorable game by Alexey Shirov which known "Troublesome Priest" in chessgames.com site!!👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov vs Alexey Shirov
🔸 Linares (1998), Linares ESP, rd 10, Mar-04
🔸 Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange Variation (D85)
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🔹 Chess grandmaster
💢 #about_Shirov_1
♦️ Alexei Shirov is a Latvian and Spanish chess grandmaster. He was ranked number two in the world in 1994.
▪️ Full name: Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov
▪️ Country: Soviet Union Latvia
Spain (1995–2011)
▪️ Born: 4 July 1972 (age 45)
Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: Grandmaster (1990)
▪️ FIDE rating: 2644 (April 2018)
▪️ Peak rating: 2755 (January 2008)
▪️ Peak ranking: No. 2 (January 1994)
♦️ IM (1989); GM (1990).
♦️Alexey Dmitrievich Shirov was born in Riga in what was then Soviet Latvia. He has a distinctive aggressive and imaginative style that has won him many admirers throughout his career. He has ranked among the world's top players since 1990. He frequently worked his way deep into the World Championship cycles, coming as close to the pinnacle of chess as winning the right to challenge Garry Kasparov for the Classical World Championship, meeting Viswanathan Anand in the final of the 2000 Knockout Tournament and playing in the final match of the World Chess Cup (2007) and playing in the 2007 Candidates. He has been officially ranked as high as number 2 in the world.
♦️ Shirov became the U16 World Champion in 1988 and was runner-up in 1990 in the World Junior Championship behind Ilya M Gurevich. He won the Spanish championship in 2002 with 8.5/9.
♦️ A memorable game by Alexey Shirov which known "Troublesome Priest" in chessgames.com site!!👇🏼👇🏼
🔸 Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov vs Alexey Shirov
🔸 Linares (1998), Linares ESP, rd 10, Mar-04
🔸 Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange Variation (D85)
@unitychess