Alexei Shirov
Sign in to saveLatvian-Spanish chess player (born 1972)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1972-07-04
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Fire on Board, Part III
- Team Tal
- Modern Spanish
- Fire on Board, part 2
- Fuego En El Tablero
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,678x
- Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation Using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
· 2017 · cited 16,555x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 15,973x
- Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Networks
· 2017 · cited 15,334x
- Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments
· 2011 · cited 11,856x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1972-07-04 ) 4 July 1972 (age 53) , Riga , Latvia
- Spouse s
- Verónica Álvarez ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1994 , divorced ) , Viktorija Čmilytė ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2001 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2007 ) , Olga Dolgova ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2010 )
- Country
- Soviet Union (until 1991), Latvia (1991–95, 2011–18), Spain (1995–2011, since 2018)
- Title
- Grandmaster (1990)
- Fide rating
- 2597 (June 2026)
- Peak rating
- 2755 (January 2008)
- Peak ranking
- No. 2 (January 1994)
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 4 July 1972
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Aleksey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Latvia
- Place of birth
- Riga
- Occupation
- non-fiction writer
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Participant in
- 42nd Chess Olympiad
- Sport
- chess
Article
Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov (Russian: Алексе́й Дми́триевич Ши́ров, romanized: Alexey Dmitrievich Shirov, Latvian: Aleksejs Širovs; born 4 July 1972) is a Latvian and Spanish chess player. Shirov was ranked number two in the world in 1994.
He won a match against Vladimir Kramnik in 1998 to qualify to play as challenger for the classical world championship match with Garry Kasparov; it never took place due to a lack of sponsorship.