Alexander Graf (''né'' Nenashev; born 25 August 1962) is an Uzbekistani-German chess grandmaster. He was Uzbekistani Chess Champion in 1989 and German Chess Champion in 2004.

Chess career

He won the Uzbekistani Chess Championship in 1989. Nenashev played for the silver medal-winning Uzbek team at the

1992 Chess Olympiad The 30th Chess Olympiad ( tl, Ika-30 Olimpiyadang pang-ahedres), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. and a women's tournament, as wel ...

in Manila; he also won the individual gold medal on board three. In 1996 Nenashev won the Cappelle-la-Grande Open. In 2000 he took German citizenship. In the same year he won the 2nd Dubai Open and the 4th ''Offene Internationale Bayerische Schach Meisterschaft'' ("Open International Bavarian Chess Championship") in

Bad Wiessee Bad Wiessee (Central Bavarian: ''Bad Wiessä'') is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Upper Bavaria in Germany. Since 1922, it has been a spa town and located on the western shore of the Tegernsee Lake. It had a population of around ...

. In 2001 he took his father's surname "Graf" and started to represent Germany. Graf won the bronze medal in the 2003 European Individual Chess Championship. In 2004 he won the German Chess Championship. Graf won at Bad Wiessee for the second time in his career in 2011.

Personal life

Alexander Graf is married to German-Azerbaijani Woman Grandmaster Rena Graf (Mamedova).Alexander Graf alias Nenaschew überholt seine Landsleute
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* * * * 1962 births Living people Uzbekistani chess players German chess players Chess Grandmasters Sportspeople from Tashkent Russian and Soviet-German people {{Germany-chess-bio-stub