Alexander Moroz (chess player) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Alexander Moroz was a Ukrainian

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

Grandmaster (1999). He was vice-president of the Ukrainian chess federation, president of the chess federation of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country. Its administrative center is Dnipropetrovsk....

and chairman of the youth committee of the Ukrainian chess federation as well as International Arbiter

International Arbiter

In chess, International Arbiter is a title awarded by FIDE to individuals deemed capable of acting as arbiter in important chess matches . The title was established in 1951....

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His best single performance was at Momotov mem Yenakiieve

Yenakiieve

Yenakieve , is a city in the Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine and carries a special status within the region designated into a separate city rayon . The city is located on the Krynka River about from the oblast's administrative center, Donetsk.Yenakiieve is an important regional centre of coal...

, 1997, where he scored 8.5 of 13 possible points (65%) against 2532-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2625. Other successful results include =1st with Ashot Nadanian

Ashot Nadanian

Ashot Nadanian is an Armenian chess International Master , chess theoretician and chess coach....

at Częstochowa

Czestochowa

Częstochowa is a city in south Poland on the Warta River with 240,027 inhabitants . It has been situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since 1999, and was previously the capital of Częstochowa Voivodeship...

-Open 1992, 2nd behind Sergei Movsesian

Sergei Movsesian

Sergei Movsesian is an Armenian chess Grandmaster who used to play for Slovakia, but as of late 2010, Movsesian announced that he plays for his home country of Armenia...

at Pardubice

Pardubice

Pardubice is the capital city of the Pardubice Region and lies on the river Elbe, 65 miles east of Prague. Pardubice has an antique centre square and old town, with many restaurants that stay open until late in the evening. There is an old Tower and a recently renovated Castle...

1995, 1st at Marhanets

Marhanets

Marhanets is a mining city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of central Ukraine. It is located on the right bank of the Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnieper River. City has about 50,000 inhabitants . Its geographic coordinates are .-2010 accident:...

1999, 3rd at Alushta

Alushta

Alushta is a resort town in Crimea, Ukraine, founded in the 6th century by Emperor Justinian. It is situated on the Black Sea on the road from Gurzuf to Sudak, as well as on the Crimean Trolleybus line....

Summer 2006.

Notable games

External links

Alexander Moroz at 365Chess.com

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