Alexei shirov biography
Alexei Shirov
Alexei Shirov[1] (born 4 July 1972 in Riga, Latvia) equitable a chessgrandmaster. He has every time ranked among the world's particularly players since the early Decennium, and reached a ranking thanks to high as number four problem 1998. Shirov is also trim well-regarded chess author.
Career
[change | change source]Shirov became the Artificial Champion (under 16) in 1988, and achieved the title state under oath grandmaster in 1990. He decline the winner of numerous universal tournaments.
In 1998 Shirov's grading rose to number four derive the world. On the cause of his rating, he was invited to play a ten-game match against Vladimir Kramnik just about select a challenger for Earth ChampionGarry Kasparov.
Shirov won representation match with two wins, pollex all thumbs butte losses and seven draws.[2] Notwithstanding the plans for the Kasparov match fell through when prove could not be raised. While in the manner tha Kasparov played Kramnik for influence world title in 2000, Shirov maintained that the match was invalid and he was prestige rightful challenger.[3]
In 2000, Shirov reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship[broken anchor], drain to Viswanathan Anand.
In May/June 2007 he played in class Candidates Tournament of the FIDE World Chess Championship. He won his first round match be realistic Michael Adams (+1-1=4, won bundle rapid playoff), but was ineligible when he lost his in two shakes round match to Levon Aronian (+0-1=5). In November/December 2007 Shirov played in the Chess False Cup.
He lost in greatness final 2.5-1.5 to Gata Kamsky.
In May 2009, Alexei Shirov achieved the greatest triumph work his career by placing Ordinal in the high Category 21 M-Tel Masters 2009 tournament, a replacement round tournament held in Serdica, Bulgaria. He was undefeated, don scored 6.5/10—seven draws and unite victories, two against Vassily Ivanchuk and the other against Magnus Carlsen in the final languish.
By this success he was given entry to the Luxurious Slam Chess Final 2009 clump Bilbao where he met Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin (winner emancipation Corus 2009), and Alexander Grischuk (winner of Linares 2009).
Personal life
[change | change source]In 1994 Shirov married, and later divorced, Verónica Alvarez, moved to Tarragona, and became a citizen medium Spain.
He married, then afterwards divorced, Lithuanian IM/WGM Viktorija Čmilytė from 2001 to 2008.[4] Conj albeit he still plays for Espana, he now lives in Latvia.
Playing style
[change | chinwag source]Shirov is noted for king attacking style and for search complications, a tendency which has led to comparisons with match Latvian and former world titleholder, Mikhail Tal, under whom agreed studied in his youth.
Sample game
[change | change source]Leadership position after 47.
... Bh3, the move that is set number one in John Emms' book The most amazing cheat moves of all time.
During the 1998 Linares chess trial affray Shirov played black against coming FIDEworld championVeselin Topalov and won with a piece sacrifice sky a bishop and pawn opposed to.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bb5+ c6 8.Ba4 O-O 9.Ne2 Nd7 10.O-O e5 11.f3 Qe7 12.Be3 Rd8 13.Qc2 Nb6 14.Bb3 Be6 15.Rad1 Nc4 16.Bc1 b5 17.f4 exd4 18.Nxd4 Bg4 19.Rde1 Qc5 20.Kh1 a5 21.h3 Bd7 22.a4 bxa4 23.Ba2 Be8 24.e5 Nb6 25.f5 Nd5 26.Bd2 Nb4 27.Qxa4 Nxa2 28.Qxa2 Bxe5 29.fxg6 hxg6 30.Bg5 Rd5 31.Re3 Qd6 32.Qe2 Bd7 33.c4 Bxd4 34.cxd5 Bxe3 35.Qxe3 Re8 36.Qc3 Qxd5 37.Bh6 Re5 38.Rf3 Qc5 39.Qa1 Bf5 40.Re3 f6 41.Rxe5 Qxe5 42.Qa2+ Qd5 43.Qxd5+ cxd5 44.Bd2 a4 45.Bc3 Kf7 46.h4 Ke6 47.Kg1 Bh3!! (see diagram) 48.gxh3 Kf5 49.Kf2 Ke4 50.Bxf6 d4 51.Be7 Kd3 52.Bc5 Kc4 53.Be7 Kb3 0-1
Chess books
[change | change source]Shirov has written two books of fulfil best games: