Alexei Shirov | |
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Full name | Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov |
Country | Spain |
Title | Grandmaster (1990) |
FIDE rating | 2722 #24 in the January 2011 FIDE world rankings |
Peak rating | 2749 (January 2008) |
Alexei Shirov[1] (born 4 July 1972 in Riga, Latvia) is a chess grandmaster. He has consistently ranked among the world's top players since the early 1990s, and reached a ranking as high as number four in 1998. Shirov is also a well-regarded chess author.