Alexandr Aleksandrovich Predke (russian: Александр Александрович Предке, ; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian-born Serbian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

grandmaster (2016).

Biography

Predke started playing chess at the age of seven. He is an alumnus of the

Tolyatti Tolyatti ( rus, Толья́тти, p=tɐlʲˈjætʲ(ː)ɪ), also known as Togliatti, formerly known as Stavropol (1737–1964), is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Samara Oblast, Russia. It is the largest city in Russia which doe ...

chess school. 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 Samara ( rus, Сама́ра, p=sɐˈmarə), known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev (; ), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara (Volga), Samara rivers, with ...

he was the second in

Lev Polugaevsky Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky ( rus, Лев Абрамович Полугаевский, p=pəlʊɡɐˈjefskʲɪj; 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995) was a Soviet chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE i ...

memorial. In August 2018, he finished third in the

Riga Technical University Open Riga Technical University Open (also RTU Open) is international "open" chess festival, annually held in Riga, Latvia in August. It is the largest classical chess tournament in the Baltic states. Abstract The Riga Technical University Open is ...

"A" tournament. In 2016, he was awarded the FIDE International Grandmaster (GM) title.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Predke, Alexandr 1994 births Living people People from Dimitrovgrad, Russia Russian chess players Chess grandmasters Naturalized citizens of Serbia Serbian chess players Serbian people of Russian descent