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Alexander Morozevich

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Alexander Morozevich

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Also known as Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich

Russian chess player

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Alexander Morozevich is a Russian chess player, Go player, and athlete born on July 18, 1977, in Moscow. He holds the titles of Grandmaster and International Master and has represented Russia in the 31st, 33rd, 34th, and 35th Chess Olympiads. His sports include chess, contract bridge, and go. Morozevich speaks Russian and has an Elo rating of 2788. He is married to Maria Fominykh.

As an author, Morozevich has published works including *The Chigorin Defence according to Morozevich*. While Wikidata lists one work, Crossref records five. Other database entries associate the name Alexander Morozevich with Austrian schlager music and acting, though these appear to refer to a different individual.

Synthesized by Vinony from 28 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • The Chigorin Defence according to Morozevich

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Austria
Active from
1926-06-30
Active to
2011-02-12
actoraustrianschlager

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
2

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

    · 2012 · cited 51,118x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,689x

  3. ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge

    · 2015 · cited 30,552x

  4. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

    · 2012 · cited 24,609x

  5. QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

    · 2009 · cited 22,980x

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Key facts

Full name
Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich
Born
( 1977-07-18 ) July 18, 1977 (age 48) , Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
Country
Russia
Title
Grandmaster (1994)
Fide rating
2654 (June 2026)
Peak rating
2788 (July 2008)
Ranking
No. 61 (June 2026)
Peak ranking
No. 2 (July 2008)

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Encyclopedic overview

Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich (Russian: Александр Серге́евич Морозе́вич, romanized: Aleksandr Sergéevich Morozévich; born July 18, 1977) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994. Morozevich is a two-time World Championship candidate (2005, 2007), two-time Russian champion and has represented Russia in seven Chess 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alexander Morozevich” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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