GMAlexander Ivanov
- FIDE ID
- 2000202
- USCF ID
- 12513936
About Alexander Ivanov
Alexander Ivanov was born in Omsk in 1956 and moved to the United States in 1988. Before emigrating, he helped the Soviet Union win World Under-26 Team silver in 1978 and gold in 1980, also taking individual gold in the latter. He became a grandmaster in 1991. Show more
Alexander Ivanov was born in Omsk in 1956 and moved to the United States in 1988. Before emigrating, he helped the Soviet Union win World Under-26 Team silver in 1978 and gold in 1980, also taking individual gold in the latter. He became a grandmaster in 1991. He shared first place at the 1989 World Open and shared the US championship in 1995 with Nick de Firmian and Patrick Wolff.
Ivanov won the Pan-American championship in 1998 and shared first place in the 2007 American Continental Championship. He competed in four FIDE world championships and four World Cups, and represented the United States at the 2002 Olympiad. His American tournament career brought four USCF Grand Prix titles during the 1990s. He married woman international master Esther Epstein and settled in Massachusetts.
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FIDE rating history
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FIDE tournaments
| Date | Tournament | Type | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | 34th Annual Eastern Class Championships - Master | Classical | 2 |
Available Games
Published games available in our archive; coverage varies by tournament. Archive last checked: 2026-11-09 (UTC).
Online games are identified from known tournament names, playing sites and PGN mode. Other games are listed as OTB (over-the-board).
| # | Date | Event | Site | Round | White | Black | Result | Moves | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 251 | 2025-12-16 | Titled Tue 16th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 10 | Mykola Korchynskyi | Alexander Ivanov | 0-1 | 45 | Open |
| 252 | 2025-12-09 | Titled Tue 9th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 9 | Yan Domin | Alexander Ivanov | 1-0 | 38 | Open |
| 253 | 2025-12-09 | Titled Tue 9th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 8 | Alexander Ivanov | Kamil Warchol | 1-0 | 55 | Open |
| 254 | 2025-12-09 | Titled Tue 9th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 7 | Alexander Ivanov | Rout Padmini | 1-0 | 38 | Open |
| 255 | 2025-12-09 | Titled Tue 9th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 6 | Andrew Tang | Alexander Ivanov | 1-0 | 33 | Open |
| 256 | 2025-12-09 | Titled Tue 9th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 5 | Kacper Klys | Alexander Ivanov | 0-1 | 44 | Open |
| 257 | 2025-12-09 | Titled Tue 9th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 4 | Alexander Ivanov | Matthias Bluebaum | 0-1 | 62 | Open |
| 258 | 2025-12-09 | Titled Tue 9th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 3 | Alexandru-Bogdan Banzea | Alexander Ivanov | 0-1 | 18 | Open |
| 259 | 2025-12-09 | Titled Tue 9th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 2 | Alexander Ivanov | Abhimanyu Puranik | 0-1 | 39 | Open |
| 260 | 2025-12-09 | Titled Tue 9th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 1 | Alexander Ivanov | Alain Fayard | 1-0 | 34 | Open |
| 261 | 2025-12-09 | Titled Tue 9th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 11 | Rohith Krishna S | Alexander Ivanov | 1/2-1/2 | 46 | Open |
| 262 | 2025-12-09 | Titled Tue 9th Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 10 | Alexander Ivanov | Sultanbeibarys Dumanuly | 1-0 | 59 | Open |
| 263 | 2025-12-02 | Titled Tue 2nd Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 9 | Cristian Salas Arros | Alexander Ivanov | 0-1 | 38 | Open |
| 264 | 2025-12-02 | Titled Tue 2nd Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 8 | Alexander Ivanov | Ramtin Kakavand | 0-1 | 41 | Open |
| 265 | 2025-12-02 | Titled Tue 2nd Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 7 | Moises Antonio Castro Silva | Alexander Ivanov | 0-1 | 72 | Open |
| 266 | 2025-12-02 | Titled Tue 2nd Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 6 | Alexander Ivanov | Stefanos Magkalakis | 0-1 | 47 | Open |
| 267 | 2025-12-02 | Titled Tue 2nd Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 5 | Kacper Drozdowski | Alexander Ivanov | 1-0 | 38 | Open |
| 268 | 2025-12-02 | Titled Tue 2nd Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 4 | Alexander Ivanov | Daniel Gutierrez Olivares | 1-0 | 38 | Open |
| 269 | 2025-12-02 | Titled Tue 2nd Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 3 | Pawel Dudzinski | Alexander Ivanov | 0-1 | 36 | Open |
| 270 | 2025-12-02 | Titled Tue 2nd Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 2 | Alexander Ivanov | Daniel Rangel | 1-0 | 50 | Open |
| 271 | 2025-12-02 | Titled Tue 2nd Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 1 | Nivedita V C | Alexander Ivanov | 1-0 | 56 | Open |
| 272 | 2025-12-02 | Titled Tue 2nd Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 11 | Marcel Petersen | Alexander Ivanov | 1-0 | 63 | Open |
| 273 | 2025-12-02 | Titled Tue 2nd Dec 2025 | chess.com INT | 10 | Alexander Ivanov | Sanket Chakravarty | 0-1 | 47 | Open |
| 274 | 2025-11-27 | 2nd 3-0 Thu 27th Nov 2025 | chess.com INT | 6 | Gabriel Carckeno Do Carmo | Alexander Ivanov | 0-1 | 33 | Open |
| 275 | 2025-11-27 | 2nd 3-0 Thu 27th Nov 2025 | chess.com INT | 5 | Alexander Ivanov | Stephane Bressac | 0-1 | 81 | Open |
| 276 | 2025-11-27 | 2nd 3-0 Thu 27th Nov 2025 | chess.com INT | 4 | Alexander Ivanov | Eshan Guha | 0-1 | 39 | Open |
| 277 | 2025-11-27 | 2nd 3-0 Thu 27th Nov 2025 | chess.com INT | 3 | Grigory Sharankov | Alexander Ivanov | 1-0 | 44 | Open |
| 278 | 2025-11-27 | 2nd 3-0 Thu 27th Nov 2025 | chess.com INT | 2 | Bozhena Piddubna | Alexander Ivanov | 0-1 | 63 | Open |
| 279 | 2025-10-28 | Titled Tue 28th Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 9 | Alexander Ivanov | Noam Sason | 1-0 | 45 | Open |
| 280 | 2025-10-28 | Titled Tue 28th Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 8 | Benjamin Bok | Alexander Ivanov | 1-0 | 32 | Open |
| 281 | 2025-10-28 | Titled Tue 28th Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 7 | Jules Moussard | Alexander Ivanov | 0-1 | 25 | Open |
| 282 | 2025-10-28 | Titled Tue 28th Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 6 | Alexander Ivanov | Aaron Bendayan Claros | 1-0 | 25 | Open |
| 283 | 2025-10-28 | Titled Tue 28th Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 5 | Alexander Ivanov | Jyotshnav Talukdar | 1-0 | 70 | Open |
| 284 | 2025-10-28 | Titled Tue 28th Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 4 | Priansh Das | Alexander Ivanov | 0-1 | 62 | Open |
| 285 | 2025-10-28 | Titled Tue 28th Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 3 | Alexander Ivanov | Ali Tutuncu | 0-1 | 44 | Open |
| 286 | 2025-10-28 | Titled Tue 28th Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 2 | Vincent Keymer | Alexander Ivanov | 1-0 | 28 | Open |
| 287 | 2025-10-28 | Titled Tue 28th Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 1 | Berikkyzy Alanna | Alexander Ivanov | 0-1 | 52 | Open |
| 288 | 2025-10-28 | Titled Tue 28th Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 11 | Alexander Ivanov | Alexei Belov | 1-0 | 19 | Open |
| 289 | 2025-10-28 | Titled Tue 28th Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 10 | Hamidreza Ebrahimi Herab | Alexander Ivanov | 1-0 | 27 | Open |
| 290 | 2025-10-21 | Titled Tue 21st Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 9 | Alexander Ivanov | Artem Bardyk | 0-1 | 41 | Open |
| 291 | 2025-10-21 | Titled Tue 21st Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 8 | Alexander Ivanov | S. Badrinath | 1-0 | 49 | Open |
| 292 | 2025-10-21 | Titled Tue 21st Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 7 | Jack Mizzi | Alexander Ivanov | 0-1 | 35 | Open |
| 293 | 2025-10-21 | Titled Tue 21st Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 6 | Alexander Ivanov | Kamil Warchol | 1-0 | 26 | Open |
| 294 | 2025-10-21 | Titled Tue 21st Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 5 | Alexander Ivanov | Diego Moreno Diepa | 0-1 | 28 | Open |
| 295 | 2025-10-21 | Titled Tue 21st Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 4 | A.R. Saleh Salem | Alexander Ivanov | 1-0 | 76 | Open |
| 296 | 2025-10-21 | Titled Tue 21st Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 3 | Nurali Bolashakov | Alexander Ivanov | 0-1 | 61 | Open |
| 297 | 2025-10-21 | Titled Tue 21st Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 2 | Alexander Ivanov | Giovanni Marchesich | 1-0 | 21 | Open |
| 298 | 2025-10-21 | Titled Tue 21st Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 11 | Alexander Ivanov | Hoang Minh Tho Do | 1-0 | 19 | Open |
| 299 | 2025-10-21 | Titled Tue 21st Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 10 | Le Thao Nguyen Pham | Alexander Ivanov | 1/2-1/2 | 59 | Open |
| 300 | 2025-10-14 | Titled Tue 14th Oct 2025 | chess.com INT | 9 | Alexander Ivanov | Jack Mizzi | 1-0 | 41 | Open |