Alexei Shirov (Russian: Алексе́й Дми́триевич Ши́ров, romanized: Alexey Dmitrievich Shirov, Latvian: Aleksejs Širovs; born 4 July 1972) is a Latvian and...

In 2022, he was elected the deputy president of FIDE. Anand defeated Alexei Shirov in a six-game match to win the 2000 FIDE World Chess Championship, a...

championship to Boris Gelfand with the score 3½–4½. In 1998, Kramnik faced Alexei Shirov in a Candidates match for the right to play Garry Kasparov for the Classical...

revolutionary and Soviet politician Alexei Savrasov, Russian artist Alexei Sayle, English comedian and author Alexei Shirov, Latvian-Spanish chess Grandmaster...

Gibtelecom Masters in Gibraltar with Zahar Efimenko, Kiril Georgiev, Alexei Shirov and Emil Sutovsky. He also won the Karabakh 2005 International "A" Tournament...

Chinese player (2007–2008, 2008–2015) 47  Soviet Union  Latvia  Spain Alexei Shirov 2755 2008-01 1972 Highest-ranked Spanish player (1995–2011, since 2018)...

Kramnik (RUS), 2777  Viswanathan Anand (IND), 2766  Evgeny Bareev (RUS), 2739  Alexei Shirov (ESP), 2737  Veselin Topalov (BUL), 2735  Alexander Grischuk (RUS),...

match was organised between Kramnik and Alexei Shirov, from 24 May to 5 June 1998 in Cazorla, Spain. Shirov was chosen because he was next in the PCA...

(IOC) supervised two matches between Viswanathan Anand of India and Alexei Shirov of Spain, which took place in the Sydney Olympic Village. Matches were...

and Spanish. Čmilytė married Latvian-Spanish chess player grandmaster Alexei Shirov in 2001, until divorcing in 2007. In 2013 she married Danish chess player...

Viswanathan Anand in Roquebrune in 1992 in a game that ended in a draw. Alexei Shirov played it as Black in a simultaneous exhibition in Canada 2011. In 2019...

game to retain his title. Kasparov vs. Shirov In a 1994 game between World Champion Garry Kasparov and Alexei Shirov, White sacrificed a pure exchange (rook...

2762  Alexander Morozevich (RUS), 2756  Michael Adams (ENG), 2755  Alexei Shirov (ESP), 2746  Peter Leko (HUN), 2743  Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR), 2719  Veselin...

Olympiad in Kocaeli, Turkey. In 2012, Fedoseev tied for first place with Alexei Shirov in the Paul Keres Memorial rapid tournament in Tallinn, finishing second...

president's nominees. He defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi in the first round and Alexei Shirov in the second, then was knocked out by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the...

tying for fourth place with Viswanathan Anand, and behind Carlsen, Alexei Shirov, and Kramnik. In May, Nakamura participated in the 2010 United States...

The field, in eventual finishing order, consisted of Karpov, Kasparov, Shirov, Bareev, Kramnik, Lautier, Anand, Kamsky, Topalov, Ivanchuk, Gelfand, Illescas...

as a player from the host country. Leko won the Candidates Tournament: Shirov won a two-game playoff 1½-½ to be placed first ahead of Topalov. The top...

attracted Boris Spassky, Paul Keres, Bent Larsen, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Alexei Shirov, Vasily Ivanchuk and Nigel Short. The Canadian Youth Chess Championships...

Ruslan Ponomariov. In December, he played a friendly six-game match with Alexei Shirov called "Battle of Generations", which was won by the latter. In April...

world-class players have used it including grandmasters Paul Keres and Alexei Shirov. The ECO code for the Baltic Defense is D06. This article uses algebraic...

and Magnus Carlsen; and grandmasters Vasyl Ivanchuk, Michael Adams, Alexei Shirov, Boris Gelfand, and Evgeny Bareev. It is a popular opening at amateur...

votes, with the game totaling the most votes being Danyyil Dvirnyy–Alexei Shirov; Shirov, in the Slav Defense, executed a decisive queenside attack involving...

Nagel Miron Sher and Alla Grinfeld Alexei Shirov and Viktorija Čmilytė Alexei Shirov and Olga Dolgova Alexei Shirov and Anastasia Travkina Yuri Shulman...

players (average of July 2004 and January 2005 ratings): Leko, Adams, Polgar, Shirov and Bacrot. The remaining ten places went to the highest finishers at the...

Kramnik after beating him with black. He shared fifth together with Alexei Shirov, behind Kasparov, Anand, Vassily Ivanchuk and Kramnik. In the 2001 FIDE...

forced it to be considered with respect by the chess world: Judit Polgár–Alexei Shirov, Donner Memorial, Amsterdam, 1995 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.Bc4 d6...

2745  Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR), 2725  Alexander Beliavsky (SLO), 2710  Alexei Shirov (ESP), 2700  Boris Gelfand (BLR), 2695  Michael Adams (ENG), 2680  Valery...

Huzman, Alexei Shirov, Alexander Khalifman, Alexander Morozevich and Valery Salov. She secured a clear third place with a 21-move win over Shirov in her...

imagination of his youth. Of the current top-level players, the Latvian Alexei Shirov has been most often compared to Tal. In fact, he studied with Tal as...