Alexander Onischuk
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| Alexander Onischuk | ||
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| Full name | Олександр Онищук | |
| Country |  United States |
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| Born | September 3, 1975 Simferopol, Soviet Union |
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| Title | Grandmaster | |
| FIDE rating | 2664 (No. 56 on the April 2008 FIDE ratings list) |
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| Peak rating | 2674 (October 2007) | |
Alexander Onischuk (born September 3, 1975) is an American chess grandmaster. Originally from the Ukraine, he immigrated to the US in 2001 and currently lives in Baltimore. He was the 2006 U.S. Chess Champion and has a FIDE rating of 2674 as of October 2007. As of the October 2006 rating supplement Onischuk had a United States Chess Federation rating of 2702, ranking him 3rd in the United States, behind Gata Kamsky and Hikaru Nakamura.
Onischuk participated in Grandmaster Tournament of International Chess Festival Biel 2007, where he placed second after Magnus Carlsen. He scored 5.5/9 like Carlsen, but lost in the tie-breaker match held after the regular rounds finished.
| Preceded by Hikaru Nakamura |
United States Chess Champion 2006 |
Succeeded by Alexander Shabalov |
[edit] External links
- FIDE rating card for Alexander Onischuk
- Alexander Onischuk at ChessGames.com
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