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Alexander Khalifman is a Russian chess player and writer born on January 18, 1966, in Saint Petersburg. He holds the titles of International Master and Grandmaster and has represented Russia, Germany, the Soviet Union, and FIDE in competitive chess. Khalifman was educated at Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239 and speaks Russian.
His career includes participation in the 30th, 34th, 35th, and 36th Chess Olympiads. He has achieved an Elo rating of 2702 and received the award of world chess champion. As a writer, Khalifman has authored works such as *Botvinnik's Best Games*, *Squeezing the Sicilian. The Alapin Variation*, *Super Tournaments 2003*, *Attacking Strategies for Club Players*, and *Squeezing 1.e4 e5*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 25
Top works
- Botvinnik's Best Games
- Squeezing the Sicilian. The Alapin Variation
- Super Tournaments 2003
- Attacking Strategies for Club Players
- Squeezing 1.e4 e5
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,019x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,513x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,574x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,941x
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Key facts
- Born
- Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman , ( 1966-01-18 ) 18 January 1966 (age 60) , Leningrad , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Country
- Soviet Union (until 1990) Germany (1991–1992) Russia (since 1992)
- Title
- Grandmaster (1990)
- World champion
- 1999–2000 (FIDE)
- Fide rating
- 2597 (June 2026)
- Peak rating
- 2702 (October 2001)
- Peak ranking
- No. 10 (July 1991)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman (Russian: Алекса́ндр Вале́рьевич Халифма́н; born 18 January 1966) is a Russian chess player and writer. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990, he was FIDE World Chess Champion in 1999.
Early life
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