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Alexandr Aleksandrovich Predke (Russian: Александр Александрович Предке, Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Александрович Предке; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian-born Serbian chess grandmaster (2016).

Biography

Predke started playing chess at the age of seven. He is an alumnus of the Tolyatti chess school.[4] In 2010, he won the Russian Youth Chess Championship in the U16 age group. In 2014, he was third in the Russian Junior Championship in the U20 age group. In 2017, in Samara he was the second in Lev Polugaevsky memorial.[5] In August 2018, he finished third in the Riga Technical University Open "A" tournament.[6]

In 2016, he was awarded the FIDE International Grandmaster (GM) title.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ Several Russian players' officially switched federations in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Russian Grandmasters Leave Russia: 'I Have No Sympathy For This War', chess.com, 1 May 2022
  2. ^ FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
  3. ^ "Predke, Alexandr". FIDE. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  4. ^ КИНЧАРОВА, Мария (11 December 2014). "Александр Предке стал шестым гроссмейстером из Тольятти - ВК Тольятти" [Alexandr Predke became the sixth grandmaster from Togliatti - VK Togliatti]. vkonline.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 22 August 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  5. ^ Herzog, Heinz. "L. Polugaevsky Memorial 2017". Chess-Results.com.
  6. ^ Herzog, Heinz. "Riga Technical University Open 2018 - Tournament A". Chess-Results.com.
  7. ^ "FIDE Title Applications - Grandmaster (GM) - Predke, Alexandr". ratings.fide.com.

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