Alexander Beliavsky
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Ukrainian and Slovenian chess player
Key facts
- Born
- Alexander Genrikhovich Beliavsky , ( 1953-12-17 ) December 17, 1953 (age 72) , Lviv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union
- Country
- Soviet Union (until 1992) Ukraine (1992–1995) Slovenia (since 1996)
- Title
- Grandmaster (1975)
- Fide rating
- 2416 (June 2026)
- Peak rating
- 2710 (July 1997)
- Peak ranking
- No. 4 (July 1985)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alexander
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Slovenia
- Place of birth
- Lviv
- Occupation
- coach
- Educated at
- Lviv State University of Physical Culture
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Participant in
- 42nd Chess Olympiad
- Field of work
- chess
- Sport
- chess
- Country for sport
- Slovenia
- Image
- AlexanderBeliavsky12.jpg
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- Alexander Beliavsky
- date of birth
- 1953-12-17
- title of chess person
- International Master
- Elo rating
- 2453
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- WikiProject Ukraine
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander Genrikhovich Beliavsky (Ukrainian: Олександр Генріхович Бєлявський, Slovene: Aleksander Henrikovič Beljavski; also romanized Belyavsky; born December 17, 1953) is a Soviet, Ukrainian and Slovenian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1975. He is also a chess coach and in 2004 was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.
Beliavsky was born in Lviv, USSR, now Ukraine. He now lives in Slovenia and has been playing for its national team since 1996.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alexander Beliavsky” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.