Alexander Onischuk
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Alexander Onischuk | |
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Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | |
Title | Grandmaster (1994) |
FIDE rating | 2640 (April 2024) |
Peak rating | 2701 (July 2010) |
Peak ranking | No. 27 (July 1999)[1] |
Alexander Onischuk (also known as Alexandr Onyschuk,[2] Ukrainian: Олександр Васильович Оніщук, romanized: Oleksandr Vasylʹovych Onishchuk; Russian: Александр Васильевич Онищук, romanized: Aleksandr Vasil'evich Onishchuk; born September 3, 1975) is a Soviet-Ukrainian-American chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994, and won the 2006 U.S. championship.
Career
Overall Alexander Onischuk participated in over 130 tournaments.[3]
Before December 1991 Alexander became a National Master.[4] In 1991 Onischuk represented Soviet Union and took 2nd place in the World under 16 championship.[5] In 1993 he was fourth in the world junior championship, tying for first and finished second on tie-breaks two years later. In 1993 he became International Master, and in 1994 Grandmaster.[6] In 2000 he won the Ukrainian Championship. He represented Ukraine in the Chess Olympiad in 1994, 1996 and 1998.
Onischuk immigrated to the United States in 2001. He competed in the US Championship, winning the tournament in 2006, finishing 2nd in 2007, 2008 and 2017 and finishing 3rd four more times.
He played in the
In the fall of 2012, Onischuk became the head coach at
In 2018 he was inducted into the
He was the Chief Organizer of 2018 and 2021 Texas Collegiate Super Finals and 2022 President's Cup - Final Four of College Chess.[6]
References
- ^ "FIDE Rating List :: July 1999". OlimpBase.
- ^ "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Alexander Onischuk". www.olimpbase.org. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ "US Chess MSA - Member Details (Tournament History)". www.uschess.org. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ "US Chess MSA - Member Details (Tournament History)". www.uschess.org. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ "Liste der Jugendweltmeister im Schach", Wikipedia (in German), 2023-05-12, retrieved 2023-07-21
- ^ a b "Onischuk, Alexander". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ Jones, Callie (July 30, 2012). "National Champion Chess Program Hires Director, Coach". Texas Tech Today. Texas Tech University. Archived from the original on 2015-01-11. Retrieved 2014-07-22.
- ^ "Alex Onischuk - U.S. Chess Hall of Fame - Inducted 2018". worldchesshof.org. World Chess Hall of Fame. 20 February 2018.
External links
- Alexander Onischuk rating card at FIDE
- Alexander Onischuk rating and tournament record at US Chess Federation
- Alexander Onischuk player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Alexander Onischuk chess games at 365Chess.com
- Alexander Onischuk Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org
- Alexander Onischuk player profile at Chess.com
- Superadas expectativas en el Abierto Mexicano 2010 (fenamac.org.mx) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-04-09) (in Spanish)