A. Beliavsky, at 35th chess olympiad Bled 2002

Alexander Beliavsky (born December 17, 1953) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. Download high resolution version (488x720, 76 KB)Alexander Beliavsky at Bled 2002. ... Download high resolution version (488x720, 76 KB)Alexander Beliavsky at Bled 2002. ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... Chess is an abstract strategy board game for two players. ... The title International Grandmaster is awarded to world-class chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. ...

Beliavsky was born in Lviv. He currently lives in Slovenia and he plays for the Olympic team there. He is noted for his uncompromising style of play and for his classical opening repertoire, including openings such as the Queen's Gambit, Ruy Lopez and French Defence, for example. Lviv (Ukrainian: Львів, L’viv ; Polish: Lwów; Russian: Львов, Lvov; German: Lemberg; Latin: Leopolis; see also Cities alternative names) is a city in western Ukraine, the capital city of the Lviv Oblast (province) and one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. ... The Queens Gambit is a chess opening that starts with the moves 1. ... The Ruy Lopez, generally called the Spanish Game outside of English speaking countries, is a chess opening characterised by the moves (in algebraic notation): 1. ... The French Defence. ...

Beliavsky won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1973 and the USSR Chess Championship in 1974 and 1990. The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 event (players must have been under 20 years old on the 1st of January in the year of competition). ... Winner list: 1991 (58th,Moscow) Minasian, Artashes 1990 (57th,Leningrad) Beliavsky, Alexander / Yudasin, Leonid / Bareev, Evgeny / Vyzmanavin, Alexey ex aequo 1989 (56th,Odessa) Vaganian, Rafael 1988 (55th,Moscow) Karpov, Anatoly / Kasparov, Garry ex aequo 1987 (54th,Minsk) Beliavsky, Alexander 1986 (53rd,Kiev) Tseshkovsky, Vitaly 1985 (52nd,Riga) Gavrikov, Viktor / Gurevich...

Touted in the early 1980s as a potential future World Champion, Belyavsky qualified for the Candidates matches only once, losing in the quarterfinals to Gary Kasparov in 1983. Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Гарри Кимович Каспаров) (born April 13, 1963) is a chess grandmaster and the strongest chess player in the world. ...

In the April 2005 FIDE list, Beliavsky had an Elo rating of 2630, making him the world's #76 and Slovenia's #1. The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ... The ELO rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ...

External links

• Alexander Beliavsky download 1520 of his games in pgn format.