Alexander Grischuk

Alexander Igorevich Grischuk is a Russian chess grandmaster, born in Moscow in 1983, who became Russian champion in 2009 and is a three time world blitz champion, in 2006, 2012 and 2015. He reached the semifinals of the FIDE World Championship in 2000 and the quarterfinals in 2004, and in 2007 he played in the eight player World Chess Championship tournament, where he scored five and a half points from fourteen games. He has played in five Candidates Tournaments, in 2007, 2011, when he reached the final, 2013, 2018 and 2020, and has won team gold medals at both the Chess Olympiad and the World Team Chess Championship.