Alexander Shabalov
| Alexander Shabalov | |
|---|---|
 Alexander Shabalov at the 2002 U.S. Chess Championships | |
| Country |
 Soviet Union Latvia United States |
| Born |
September 12, 1967 Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2563 (December 2016) |
| Peak rating | 2645 (July 1998)[1] |
Alexander Shabalov (Russian: Александр Анатольевич Шабалов, Aleksandr Anatolyevich Shabalov; Latvian: Aleksandrs Šabalovs; born September 12, 1967) is an American chess grandmaster and a four-time winner of the United States Chess Championship (1993, 2000, 2003, 2007). He also won or tied for first place seven times in the U.S. Open Chess Championship (1993, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2015, 2016).
In 2002 he tied for first place at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow with Gregory Kaidanov, Alexander Grischuk, Aleksej Aleksandrov and Vadim Milov. In 2009 Shabalov shared first place with Fidel Corrales Jimenez in the American Continental Chess Championship.[2]
He was born in Riga, Latvia, and like his fellow Latvians Alexei Shirov and Mikhail Tal he is known for courting complications even at the cost of objective soundness.
Shabalov regularly lectured chess players of all ages at the House of Chess, a store that he ran at the Ross Park Mall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, until it closed in mid-2007.
In 2015 he was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame.
Notable games
- Alexey Shirov vs Alexander Shabalov, Rapidplay 2001, Spanish Game: Schliemann Defense, Dyckhoff Variation (C63), 0-1
- Alexander Shabalov vs Varuzhan Akobian, US Championships 2003 2003, French Defense: Advance, Lputian Variation (C02), 1-0
- Alexander Shabalov vs John Fedorowicz, US Championships 2003 2003, Benko Gambit: Accepted, Pawn Return Variation (A57), 1-0
References
- ↑ Alexander Shabalov FIDE rating history, 1986-2001 at OlimpBase.org
- ↑ "Continental Absolute Chess Championship Americas 2009". Chessdom. 2009-08-04. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alexander Shabalov. |
- Alexander Shabalov rating card at FIDE
- Alexander Shabalov player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Alexander Shabalov chess games at 365Chess.com
- Alexander Shabalov USCF profile
- Interview with Alexander Shabalov
- Ackerman, Jan (January 3, 2004), Chess master's next move will be writing about it, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| Achievements | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Patrick Wolff |
United States Chess Champion 1993 (with Alex Yermolinsky) |
Succeeded by Boris Gulko |
| Preceded by Boris Gulko |
United States Chess Champion 2000-2001 (with Joel Benjamin and Yasser Seirawan) |
Succeeded by Larry Christiansen |
| Preceded by Larry Christiansen |
United States Chess Champion 2003–2004 |
Succeeded by Hikaru Nakamura |
| Preceded by Alexander Onischuk |
United States Chess Champion 2007 |
Succeeded by Yuri Shulman |