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Alexei Shirov

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Latvian-Spanish chess player (born 1972)

Person · Open Library

Works
7

Top works

  • Fire on Board, Part III
  • Team Tal
  • Modern Spanish
  • Fire on Board, part 2
  • Fuego En El Tablero

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Russia
Active from
1984-09-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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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)

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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

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