In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Valeryevich and the family name is Khalifman.
Alexander Khalifman
Full name
Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman
Country
Soviet Union (until 1990)
Germany (1991–1992)
Russia (since 1992)
Born
(1966-01-18) 18 January 1966 (age 58) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title
Grandmaster (1990)
World Champion
1999–2000 (FIDE)
FIDE rating
2597 (May 2024)
Peak rating
2702 (October 2001)
Peak ranking
No. 10 (July 1991)
Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman (Russian: Алекса́ндр Вале́рьевич Халифма́н; born 18 January 1966) is a Russian chess player and writer. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990, he was FIDE World Chess Champion in 1999.
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place with three players at Novosibirsk. A last round victory against Alexander Morozevich secured his second consecutive Russian Championship on tiebreak...
that she would incorporate them into her analysis. In particular, AlexanderKhalifman of the GM School struck up a constructive correspondence with her...
Club Cup 2000 (including a victory over then-FIDE World Champion AlexanderKhalifman), joint first with 7½/9 at Torshavn 2000, 8½/11 for Ukraine in the...
was awarded Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture AlexanderKhalifman (1981–1983) – FIDE World Chess champion in 1999 Stanislav Smirnov...
final of the FIDE knockout World Chess Championship, but lost to AlexanderKhalifman by 3.5-2.5. At the Russia vs the Rest of the World 2002, Akopian...
world champion Genrikh Kasparyan (1910–1995) Paul Keres (1916–1975) AlexanderKhalifman (born 1966) Semen Khanin (born 1999) Andrei Kharlov (1968–2014) Igor...
interesting gambit line 4.d4 exd4 5.c3 has also been recommended by AlexanderKhalifman, although some of the resulting positions have yet to be extensively...
1998: Final Results of 1999: FIDE World Champion AlexanderKhalifman was a late replacement for Alexander Morozevich. Final Results of 2000: Final Results...
FIDE World Chess Championship he won his first two matches against AlexanderKhalifman (+4−0=2) and Jan Timman (+2−1=5) to reach the quarterfinals, where...
draws. In April 2017, he played on the Russian 50+ team alongside AlexanderKhalifman, Sergey Ivanov, and Evgeniy Solozhenkin in the World Senior Team...
Israel Ilya Smirin 2702 2001-07 1968 Soviet Union Germany Russia AlexanderKhalifman 2702 2001-10 1966 Former world chess champion (FIDE 1999–2000), formerly...
first-round, two-game match against the eventual tournament winner, AlexanderKhalifman. Kamsky won the first game, lost the second game, and then lost the...
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