IMAleksandr E. Usov
- FIDE ID
- 24257109
About Aleksandr E. Usov
Aleksandr Usov grew up in Moscow's junior chess scene, winning Russian championships in the under-9, under-11 and under-13 age groups. His success with Moscow's winning White Rook school team in 2021 led to an invitation to Primakov Gymnasium, where he worked with grandmaster Igor Yagupov. Show more
Aleksandr Usov grew up in Moscow's junior chess scene, winning Russian championships in the under-9, under-11 and under-13 age groups. His success with Moscow's winning White Rook school team in 2021 led to an invitation to Primakov Gymnasium, where he worked with grandmaster Igor Yagupov. He helped the school win White Rook again in 2023 and 2024. Playing second board for Primakov, he contributed to its bronze medal in the adult Russian Higher League team championship in 2023. He also won the Moscow region's men's blitz championship that year and made his Premier League team debut for the region in 2024. At fifteen, he won the 2025 Moscow Open blitz event, ending with five straight victories in a field containing eight grandmasters. FIDE records his International Master title in 2026. His younger brother Dmitri has also won medals in Russian youth chess.
Rating history
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Games
Published games available in our archive; coverage varies by tournament. Archive last checked: 2026-11-11 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 801 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 11 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Matvey Galchenko | 0-1 | 51 | Open |
| 802 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 10 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Andrew Hong | 0-1 | 34 | Open |
| 803 | 2024-10-12 | Ivi GP Chess 2024 | Moscow RUS | 10.5 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Konstantin Popov | 1-0 | 54 | Open |
| 804 | 2024-10-11 | Ivi GP Chess 2024 | Moscow RUS | 9.7 | Alexei Fedorov | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 36 | Open |
| 805 | 2024-10-10 | Ivi GP Chess 2024 | Moscow RUS | 8.5 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Marat I Gilfanov | 0-1 | 33 | Open |
| 806 | 2024-10-09 | Ivi GP Chess 2024 | Moscow RUS | 7.1 | David Kaufman | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 30 | Open |
| 807 | 2024-10-08 | Ivi GP Chess 2024 | Moscow RUS | 6.12 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Alexander Cherniaev | 1-0 | 80 | Open |
| 808 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 5 | Jesus Alberto Molina Sumoza | Aleksandr E. Usov | 1-0 | 54 | Open |
| 809 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 4 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Luciano Justi Antunes | 1-0 | 60 | Open |
| 810 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 3 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Alberto Santos Flores | 0-1 | 31 | Open |
| 811 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 2 | Piotr Sygulski | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 38 | Open |
| 812 | 2024-10-07 | Ivi GP Chess 2024 | Moscow RUS | 5.14 | Steven Rojas Salas | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 37 | Open |
| 813 | 2024-10-06 | Ivi GP Chess 2024 | Moscow RUS | 4.2 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Nikolay Averin | 1/2-1/2 | 55 | Open |
| 814 | 2024-10-06 | Ivi GP Chess 2024 | Moscow RUS | 3.9 | Andrey Gorovets | Aleksandr E. Usov | 1-0 | 22 | Open |
| 815 | 2024-10-05 | Ivi GP Chess 2024 | Moscow RUS | 2.1 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Evgeny Alekseev | 1/2-1/2 | 28 | Open |
| 816 | 2024-10-05 | Ivi GP Chess 2024 | Moscow RUS | 1.5 | Daniil Lintchevski | Aleksandr E. Usov | 1/2-1/2 | 57 | Open |
| 817 | 2024-09-17 | Titled Tue 17th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 8 | Michael Kotyk | Aleksandr E. Usov | 1-0 | 22 | Open |
| 818 | 2024-09-17 | Titled Tue 17th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 7 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Kacper Drozdowski | 0-1 | 29 | Open |
| 819 | 2024-09-17 | Titled Tue 17th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 6 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Grigoriy Oparin | 1/2-1/2 | 44 | Open |
| 820 | 2024-09-17 | Titled Tue 17th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 5 | Arkadiusz Skawinski | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 45 | Open |
| 821 | 2024-09-17 | Titled Tue 17th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 4 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Andrey Esipenko | 0-1 | 30 | Open |
| 822 | 2024-09-17 | Titled Tue 17th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 3 | Magnus Carlsen | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 41 | Open |
| 823 | 2024-09-17 | Titled Tue 17th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 2 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Mateusz Brozyna | 1-0 | 30 | Open |
| 824 | 2024-09-17 | Titled Tue 17th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 1 | Jacob Templen Grave | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 54 | Open |
| 825 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 9 | Milosz Szpar | Aleksandr E. Usov | 1-0 | 47 | Open |
| 826 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 8 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Oleg Papayan | 1-0 | 29 | Open |
| 827 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 7 | Jules Moussard | Aleksandr E. Usov | 1-0 | 38 | Open |
| 828 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 6 | Efe Kerem Uzunoglu | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 51 | Open |
| 829 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 5 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Sasha-Matei Craciun | 1-0 | 29 | Open |
| 830 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 4 | Juan Antonio Urbina Perez | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 34 | Open |
| 831 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 3 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Sargis A. Manukyan | 0-1 | 27 | Open |
| 832 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 2 | Narek Ghimoyan | Aleksandr E. Usov | 1/2-1/2 | 188 | Open |
| 833 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 1 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Antonio Carlos Bambino Filho | 1-0 | 32 | Open |
| 834 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 10 | Avi Harrison Kaplan | Aleksandr E. Usov | 1-0 | 36 | Open |
| 835 | 2024-09-03 | Titled Tue 3rd Sep Late | chess.com INT | 1 | Alex Villa Tornero | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 45 | Open |
| 836 | 2024-08-13 | Titled Tue 13th Aug Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Quentin Fontaine | 1-0 | 40 | Open |
| 837 | 2024-07-19 | 20th Moscow Open A 2024 | Moscow RUS | 7.16 | Daniil Rakitin | Aleksandr E. Usov | 1/2-1/2 | 5 | Open |
| 838 | 2024-07-19 | 20th Moscow Open A 2024 | Moscow RUS | 6.6 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Vladimir Zakhartsov | 1/2-1/2 | 30 | Open |
| 839 | 2024-07-18 | 20th Moscow Open A 2024 | Moscow RUS | 5.16 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Alexander V Filipenko | 1-0 | 44 | Open |
| 840 | 2024-07-18 | 20th Moscow Open A 2024 | Moscow RUS | 4.23 | Alexander M Chudinovskikh | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 38 | Open |
| 841 | 2024-07-17 | 20th Moscow Open A 2024 | Moscow RUS | 2.22 | Igor Demkin | Aleksandr E. Usov | 1-0 | 32 | Open |
| 842 | 2024-06-25 | Titled Tue 25th Jun Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Marat Shakirov | Aleksandr E. Usov | 1/2-1/2 | 88 | Open |
| 843 | 2024-06-25 | Titled Tue 25th Jun Late | chess.com INT | 1 | Galina Novikova | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 44 | Open |
| 844 | 2024-06-18 | Titled Tue 18th Jun Early | chess.com INT | 9 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Chithambaram VR. Aravindh | 0-1 | 35 | Open |
| 845 | 2024-06-18 | Titled Tue 18th Jun Late | chess.com INT | 9 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Grigoriy Oparin | 0-1 | 11 | Open |
| 846 | 2024-06-18 | Titled Tue 18th Jun Early | chess.com INT | 8 | Yaroslav Remizov | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 19 | Open |
| 847 | 2024-06-18 | Titled Tue 18th Jun Late | chess.com INT | 8 | Jose Carlos Ibarra Jerez | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 59 | Open |
| 848 | 2024-06-18 | Titled Tue 18th Jun Late | chess.com INT | 7 | Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 27 | Open |
| 849 | 2024-06-18 | Titled Tue 18th Jun Early | chess.com INT | 7 | Viacheslav Slovineanu | Aleksandr E. Usov | 0-1 | 41 | Open |
| 850 | 2024-06-18 | Titled Tue 18th Jun Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Aleksandr E. Usov | Danila Bilan | 1-0 | 22 | Open |
- vs Matvey GalchenkoLost · 0-1Titled Tue 15th Oct Late
- vs Andrew HongLost · 0-1Titled Tue 15th Oct Late
- vs Konstantin PopovWon · 1-0Ivi GP Chess 2024
- vs Alexei FedorovWon · 0-1Ivi GP Chess 2024
- vs Marat I GilfanovLost · 0-1Ivi GP Chess 2024
- vs David KaufmanWon · 0-1Ivi GP Chess 2024
- vs Alexander CherniaevWon · 1-0Ivi GP Chess 2024
- vs Jesus Alberto Molina SumozaLost · 1-0Titled Tue 8th Oct Late
- vs Luciano Justi AntunesWon · 1-0Titled Tue 8th Oct Late
- vs Alberto Santos FloresLost · 0-1Titled Tue 8th Oct Late
- vs Piotr SygulskiWon · 0-1Titled Tue 8th Oct Late
- vs Steven Rojas SalasWon · 0-1Ivi GP Chess 2024
- vs Nikolay AverinDraw · ½–½Ivi GP Chess 2024
- vs Andrey GorovetsLost · 1-0Ivi GP Chess 2024
- vs Evgeny AlekseevDraw · ½–½Ivi GP Chess 2024
- vs Daniil LintchevskiDraw · ½–½Ivi GP Chess 2024
- vs Michael KotykLost · 1-0Titled Tue 17th Sep Late
- vs Kacper DrozdowskiLost · 0-1Titled Tue 17th Sep Late
- vs Grigoriy OparinDraw · ½–½Titled Tue 17th Sep Late
- vs Arkadiusz SkawinskiWon · 0-1Titled Tue 17th Sep Late
- vs Andrey EsipenkoLost · 0-1Titled Tue 17th Sep Late
- vs Magnus CarlsenWon · 0-1Titled Tue 17th Sep Late
- vs Mateusz BrozynaWon · 1-0Titled Tue 17th Sep Late
- vs Jacob Templen GraveWon · 0-1Titled Tue 17th Sep Late
- vs Milosz SzparLost · 1-0Titled Tue 10th Sep Late
- vs Oleg PapayanWon · 1-0Titled Tue 10th Sep Late
- vs Jules MoussardLost · 1-0Titled Tue 10th Sep Late
- vs Efe Kerem UzunogluWon · 0-1Titled Tue 10th Sep Late
- vs Sasha-Matei CraciunWon · 1-0Titled Tue 10th Sep Late
- vs Juan Antonio Urbina PerezWon · 0-1Titled Tue 10th Sep Late
- vs Sargis A. ManukyanLost · 0-1Titled Tue 10th Sep Late
- vs Narek GhimoyanDraw · ½–½Titled Tue 10th Sep Late
- vs Antonio Carlos Bambino FilhoWon · 1-0Titled Tue 10th Sep Late
- vs Avi Harrison KaplanLost · 1-0Titled Tue 10th Sep Late
- vs Alex Villa TorneroWon · 0-1Titled Tue 3rd Sep Late
- vs Quentin FontaineWon · 1-0Titled Tue 13th Aug Early
- vs Daniil RakitinDraw · ½–½20th Moscow Open A 2024
- vs Vladimir ZakhartsovDraw · ½–½20th Moscow Open A 2024
- vs Alexander V FilipenkoWon · 1-020th Moscow Open A 2024
- vs Alexander M ChudinovskikhWon · 0-120th Moscow Open A 2024
- vs Igor DemkinLost · 1-020th Moscow Open A 2024
- vs Marat ShakirovDraw · ½–½Titled Tue 25th Jun Early
- vs Galina NovikovaWon · 0-1Titled Tue 25th Jun Late
- vs Chithambaram VR. AravindhLost · 0-1Titled Tue 18th Jun Early
- vs Grigoriy OparinLost · 0-1Titled Tue 18th Jun Late
- vs Yaroslav RemizovWon · 0-1Titled Tue 18th Jun Early
- vs Jose Carlos Ibarra JerezWon · 0-1Titled Tue 18th Jun Late
- vs Yagiz Kaan ErdogmusWon · 0-1Titled Tue 18th Jun Late
- vs Viacheslav SlovineanuWon · 0-1Titled Tue 18th Jun Early
- vs Danila BilanWon · 1-0Titled Tue 18th Jun Early
FIDE tournaments
| Date | Tournament | Type | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-25 | VPHS_RIVIERA 2026 24 OCTOBER RAPID-G | Rapid | 6 |
| 2026-10-25 | VPHS_RIVIERA 2026 25 OCTOBER BLITZ-L | Blitz | 10 |
| 2026-10-22 | 16 stage of the Moscow Cup 2026 blitz | Blitz | 8 |
| 2026-10-16 | Blitz_Men Champ. 2026 | Blitz | 9½ |
| 2026-10-14 | Rapid_Men Champ. 2026 | Rapid | 7½ |
| 2026-10-10 | Rapid Moscow. October 2026 - 2 | Rapid | 5½ |
| 2026-10-10 | Blitz Moscow. October 2026 - 3 | Blitz | 8½ |
| 2026-10-03 | Chess Champions League 2026 - "Ivi Grand Prix Chess IV" | Classical | 6 |
| 2026-10-02 | Blitz Moscow. October 2026 - 1 | Blitz | 9½ |
| 2026-10-01 | 14 stage of the Moscow Cup 2026 blitz | Blitz | 10½ |