Aleksander Delchev ( bg, Александър Делчев; born 15 July 1971) is a

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player and writer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by

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in 1997. Delchev won the

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in 1994, 1996 and 2001. He played for the Bulgarian national team in the

Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and ...

s of 1994, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 with a performance of 64.6% (+36=34-12). Selected tournament victories include the

European Junior Chess Championship The first chess youth championship in Europe was the yearly European Junior Championship for under age 20. It was played from 1971–2002. FIDE officially introduced the European Junior Championship in 1970 at their Annual Congress and so the 19 ...

(1991–1992), the 47th

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(2004–2005), the 4th Open Master at the Sixth International Chess Festival in

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(2007), the International Open Championship of

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(2007) and the Open International Bavarian Chess Championship in

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(2005 and 2013). In 2011 he tied for 2nd-7th with

Julio Granda Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga (born February 25, 1967) is a Peruvian chess grandmaster and four-time champion of the Americas. Career Born in Camaná, he learned how to play chess at the age of five. In 1980 he won the World Infant Cup in Ma ...

, Ivan Šarić,

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Maxim Turov Maxim Turov (; born 7 December 1979) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Turov participated in the 1st Children's Chess Olympiad, held in Linares in 1993, as part of Russia "A" team, which won the ...

and

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at the 31st Villa de

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Open.

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Aleksander Delchev
chess games at 365Chess.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Delchev, Aleksander 1971 births Living people Chess grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Chess writers Chess players from Sofia