Alexander Moiseenko ( uk, Олександр Моісеєнко, ; born 17 May 1980) is a Ukrainian

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grandmaster and the 2013 European champion. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the

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s of

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and

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Biography

Born in

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to a Ukrainian family, Moiseenko moved with his family to

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.World Championship for boys Under-16 in Spain in 1996, and was awarded the

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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

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of 1998, held in Mureck, he scored 6.5/9 for a shared second place.the Alexander Moiseenko player file
at chessmetrics.com Moiseenko tied for first place in the 1999

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. In the Ukrainian Grandmaster event of 1999, he finished clear first with 10/13, earning a

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. He then tied for first place at Orel 1999 with 8/11. In the

Krasnodar Krasnodar (; rus, Краснода́р, p=krəsnɐˈdar; ady, Краснодар), formerly Yekaterinodar (until 1920), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The city stands on the Kuban River in south ...

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

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for a shared 4-11th place. This qualified him into the

FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 The FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 was held at the Almahary Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, from June 18 to July 13, 2004. It was won by Rustam Kasimdzhanov, who beat Michael Adams in the final by a score of 4½–3½. He won about US$100,000 and ...

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. In the latter, he defeated

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in round one by 1.5-0.5 to advance. In round two, he defeated

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by 2.5-1.5 in playoffs. He was knocked out in round three by

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by 0.5-1.5. At the 2003

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International Pro-Am, Moiseenko scored 6.5/9 for a shared 3rd-5th place. In the same year he won the

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Chess'n Math Association Futurity with 8.5/10 and the

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with 8/10. The next year at the same site, he defended his title in that championship, shared with Dimitri Tyomkin, on 8/10. He won the 2004 Guelph International Pro-Am with 7.5/9. He shared 2nd-3rd places at the

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International 2004 with 7/11. In the 2005 Canadian Open Championship in

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, he scored 7/10 in an elite field, for a shared 12-27th place. He won the

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Open in Montreal 2006 with 8/9, and shared 3rd-9th places at the 2006 Canadian Open Championship in

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with 6.5/9. In 2006, he also won the

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with 7,5/9. In 2007, Moiseenko won the Arctic Chess Challenge in

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scoring 7.5/9, half point ahead of

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and

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. Moiseenko tied for first, with 6.5/9, in the 2008 Canadian Open Championship in Montreal, and he also won the 2008 Edmonton International tournament, with 7/9, ahead of former U.S. champion Alexander Shabalov. In 2009 he tied for first place with

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in the

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, placing second on tiebreak. In 2014, he was joint winner with

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of the Moscow Open. He won a silver medal in chess at the

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in Israel, behind German

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. In 2019, Moiseenko won 2nd- 3rd place in the

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International Chess Championship along with

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Team competitions

Moiseenko has played for Ukraine at the

s six times, at the

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five times (2005, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017), at the

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five times (2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2013).Alexander Moiseenko
team chess record at OlimpBase ;Chess Olympiads * Bled 2002, 2nd reserve, 7/9 (+5 =4 −0) * Calvià 2004, board 4, 5/8 (+3 =4 −1), team gold * Turin 2006, 1st reserve, 4/6 (+4 =0 −2) * Khanty-Mansysk 2010, reserve, 2.5/4 (+2 =1 -1), team gold * Istanbul 2012, reserve, 5/7 (+4 =2 -1), team bronze * Tromsø 2014, reserve, 7/9 (+5 =4 -0), board silver ;World Team Chess Championship *

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2005, 1st reserve, 1.5/3 (+1 =1 −1) *

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2011, board 4, 6/8 (+4 =4 −0) *

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2013, board 3, 4/7 (+1 =6 −0) *

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2015, reserve, 4/6 (+2 =4 −0) *

Khanty-Mansiysk Khanty-Mansiysk ( rus, Ха́нты-Манси́йск, Khánty-Mansíysk, lit. ''Khanty-Mansi Town''; Khanty: , ''Jomvoćś''; Mansi: , ''Abga'') is a city and the administrative center of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra, Russia. It stand ...

2017, board 4, 5.5/8 (+3 =5 −0) ;European Team Chess Championship *

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2003, board 2, 5/8 (+3 =4 −1) * Gothenburg 2005, board 3, 6/8 (+5 =2 −1), board bronze *

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2007, board 4, 1.5/4, (+1 =1 −2) *

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the P ...

2011, board 4, 3.5/7, (+2 =3 −2) *

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2013, board 4, 5.5/8, (+4 =3 −1)

References

External links

Alexander Moiseenko
chess games at 365Chess.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Moiseenko, Alexander 1980 births Living people People from Severomorsk Russian people of Ukrainian descent Chess grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Ukrainian chess players European Chess Champions Competitors at the 2017 Maccabiah Games Maccabiah Games medalists in chess Maccabiah Games silver medalists for Ukraine