GMAlexander Ivanov

USA Born 1956 Male
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.

Ratings

2358

Classical

Published FIDE

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Rapid

Published FIDE

2497

Blitz

Published FIDE

2462

USCF Regular

Published US Chess

Official classical ranks

World rank
#2520
National rank · USA
#119

Active players · Nov 2026 FIDE list ⓘ

FIDE rating history

Highest recorded rating
2606 Jan 2006
Recorded years
2001–2026
Archived games
437

Based on available monthly lists and saved games.

USCF rating history

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FIDE rating history

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FIDE tournaments

DateTournamentTypeScore
2026-10-1634th Annual Eastern Class Championships - MasterClassical2

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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
301 2025-10-14 Titled Tue 14th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 8 Alexander Ivanov Martin Holten Fiskaaen 1-0 30 Open
302 2025-10-14 Titled Tue 14th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 7 Oscar Humberto Ardila Alexander Ivanov 1-0 72 Open
303 2025-10-14 Titled Tue 14th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 6 Konstantin Begunov Alexander Ivanov 0-1 33 Open
304 2025-10-14 Titled Tue 14th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 5 Alexander Ivanov Gasan Guliev 1-0 20 Open
305 2025-10-14 Titled Tue 14th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 4 Alexander Ivanov Vladimir Predein 1/2-1/2 63 Open
306 2025-10-14 Titled Tue 14th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 2 Tuan Minh Le Alexander Ivanov 1-0 26 Open
307 2025-10-14 Titled Tue 14th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 1 Alexander Ivanov Anatoliy Emeliantsev 1-0 53 Open
308 2025-10-14 Titled Tue 14th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 11 Alexander Ivanov Madhvendra Pratap Sharma 0-1 37 Open
309 2025-10-14 Titled Tue 14th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 10 Mukhammadali Abdurakhmonov Alexander Ivanov 1-0 87 Open
310 2025-10-07 Titled Tue 7th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 9 Alexander Ivanov Nagare Kaivalya Sandip 1-0 64 Open
311 2025-10-07 Titled Tue 7th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 8 Roger Labruyere Alexander Ivanov 0-1 33 Open
312 2025-10-07 Titled Tue 7th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 7 Kirill Klukin Alexander Ivanov 1-0 41 Open
313 2025-10-07 Titled Tue 7th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 6 Alexander Ivanov Jyotshnav Talukdar 1-0 52 Open
314 2025-10-07 Titled Tue 7th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 5 Alexander Ivanov Samvel Ter-Sahakyan 0-1 63 Open
315 2025-10-07 Titled Tue 7th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 4 Alfie Onslow Alexander Ivanov 0-1 32 Open
316 2025-10-07 Titled Tue 7th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 3 Alexander Ivanov Guido Caprio 1-0 43 Open
317 2025-10-07 Titled Tue 7th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 2 M. Amin Tabatabaei Alexander Ivanov 1-0 63 Open
318 2025-10-07 Titled Tue 7th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 1 Alfeu Junior Varela Bueno Alexander Ivanov 0-1 52 Open
319 2025-10-07 Titled Tue 7th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 11 Daniel Naroditsky Alexander Ivanov 1-0 36 Open
320 2025-10-07 Titled Tue 7th Oct 2025 chess.com INT 10 Alexander Ivanov Sergei Lobanov 1-0 34 Open
321 2025-08-26 Titled Tue 26th Aug Early chess.com INT 9 Artur Gabrielian Alexander Ivanov 1-0 25 Open
322 2025-08-26 Titled Tue 26th Aug Early chess.com INT 8 Alexander Ivanov Wiktoria Smietanska 1-0 37 Open
323 2025-08-26 Titled Tue 26th Aug Early chess.com INT 7 Zachary Hankun Liu Alexander Ivanov 0-1 23 Open
324 2025-08-26 Titled Tue 26th Aug Early chess.com INT 6 Alexander Ivanov David Galstyan 1-0 29 Open
325 2025-08-26 Titled Tue 26th Aug Early chess.com INT 5 Akeem Brown Alexander Ivanov 0-1 39 Open
326 2025-08-26 Titled Tue 26th Aug Early chess.com INT 4 Alexander Ivanov A A C B Amarasinghe 1-0 35 Open
327 2025-08-26 Titled Tue 26th Aug Early chess.com INT 3 Boris Itkis Alexander Ivanov 1-0 60 Open
328 2025-08-26 Titled Tue 26th Aug Early chess.com INT 2 Alexander Ivanov Lile Koridze 0-1 48 Open
329 2025-08-26 Titled Tue 26th Aug Early chess.com INT 11 Alexander Jasinski Alexander Ivanov 1-0 65 Open
330 2025-08-26 Titled Tue 26th Aug Early chess.com INT 10 Alexander Ivanov Jan Gustafsson 0-1 40 Open
331 2019-08-18 49th Continental Open Sturbridge USA 9 Alexander Ivanov C.S. Rajesh 1-0 73 Open
332 2019-08-18 49th Continental Open Sturbridge USA 8 Eugene Yanayt Alexander Ivanov 0-1 30 Open
333 2019-08-17 49th Continental Open Sturbridge USA 6.4 Jianchao Zhou Alexander Ivanov 1-0 22 Open
334 2019-08-16 49th Continental Open Sturbridge USA 5.3 Kamil Dragun Alexander Ivanov 1/2-1/2 66 Open
335 2019-08-15 49th Continental Open Sturbridge USA 3 Praveen Balakrishnan Alexander Ivanov 1/2-1/2 46 Open
336 2019-08-15 49th Continental Open Sturbridge USA 2 Alexander Ivanov Brett Kildahl 1-0 41 Open
337 2017-04-29 26th Eastern Class 2017 Sturbridge USA 3 Alexander Ivanov Gil Popilski 1-0 32 Open
338 2017-03-27 Queen City IM Norm 2017 Manchester USA 9.1 Akshita Gorti Alexander Ivanov 0-1 43 Open
339 2017-03-27 Queen City IM Norm 2017 Manchester USA 10.1 Alexander Ivanov Denis Shmeliov 1-0 22 Open
340 2017-03-26 Queen City IM Norm 2017 Manchester USA 8.1 Alexander Ivanov Levan Bregadze 0-1 46 Open
341 2017-03-26 Queen City IM Norm 2017 Manchester USA 7.1 Justin Sarkar Alexander Ivanov 1-0 40 Open
342 2017-03-25 Queen City IM Norm 2017 Manchester USA 6.1 Alexander Ivanov Nikhil Kumar 1-0 38 Open
343 2017-03-25 Queen City IM Norm 2017 Manchester USA 5.1 Alexander Ivanov Akshita Gorti 1/2-1/2 35 Open
344 2017-03-24 Queen City IM Norm 2017 Manchester USA 4.1 Denis Shmeliov Alexander Ivanov 1/2-1/2 19 Open
345 2017-03-24 Queen City IM Norm 2017 Manchester USA 3.1 Levan Bregadze Alexander Ivanov 1/2-1/2 32 Open
346 2017-03-23 Queen City IM Norm 2017 Manchester USA 2.1 Alexander Ivanov Justin Sarkar 1-0 50 Open
347 2017-03-23 Queen City IM Norm 2017 Manchester USA 1.1 Nikhil Kumar Alexander Ivanov 0-1 47 Open
348 2016-11-30 World Senior 50+ 2016 Marianske Lazne CZE 11.4 Alexander Ivanov Jakob Meister 1-0 72 Open
349 2016-11-29 World Senior 50+ 2016 Marianske Lazne CZE 10.7 Peter Larsen Alexander Ivanov 0-1 54 Open
350 2016-11-28 World Senior 50+ 2016 Marianske Lazne CZE 9.3 Alexander Ivanov Alexander Reprintsev 0-1 34 Open

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