Alexander Onischuk
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Alexander Onischuk | |
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 Onischuk in 2022 | |
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| Born | September 3, 1975 Sevastopol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Title | Grandmaster (1994) |
| FIDE rating | 2640 (December 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2701 (July 2010) |
| Peak ranking | No. 27 (July 1999)[1] |
Alexander Vasylovych Onischuk[a][2] born September 3, 1975) is a chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994, and won the 2006 U.S. championship.
Career
In 1991, Onischuk represented the Soviet Union and took 2nd place in the World under 16 championship.[3] 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.[4] 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.
In 2002, Onischuk tied for first place at the U.S. Masters Chess Championship.
He played in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 and 2004, and in the FIDE World Cup every year between 2007 and 2017. He also represented the US in six Chess Olympiads and seven World Team Chess Championships.
In the fall of 2012, Onischuk became the head coach at Texas Tech University.[5] Under his coaching, the Texas Tech University Chess Program has won the 2015-2016 and 2019-2020 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championships and played in the President's cup 5 times.
In 2018 he was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame.[6]
He was the Chief Organizer of 2018 and 2021 Texas Collegiate Super Finals and 2022 President's Cup - Final Four of College Chess.[4]
Notes
References
- ^ "FIDE Rating List :: July 1999". OlimpBase.
- ^ "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Alexander Onischuk". www.olimpbase.org. Retrieved July 21, 2023.
- ^ "Liste der Jugendweltmeister im Schach", Wikipedia (in German), May 12, 2023, retrieved July 21, 2023
- ^ a b "Onischuk, Alexander". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved July 21, 2023.
- ^ Jones, Callie (July 30, 2012). "National Champion Chess Program Hires Director, Coach". Texas Tech Today. Texas Tech University. Archived from the original on January 11, 2015. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
- ^ "Alex Onischuk - U.S. Chess Hall of Fame - Inducted 2018". worldchesshof.org. World Chess Hall of Fame. February 20, 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)
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