Alexey Vasilyevich Sarana (russian: Алексей Васильевич Сарана, ; born 26 January 2000) is a Russian-born Serbian
chess grandmaster. He won the
European Individual Chess Championship in 2023.
His father is
Ukrainian
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* Something of, from, or related to Ukraine
* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
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and lives near
Kyiv. Sarana left Russia in March 2022, stating that he does not plan to return until the end of the
Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Chess career
Born in 2000, Sarana earned his
international master
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...
title in 2016 and his
grandmaster title in 2017. In February 2018, he participated in the
Aeroflot Open. He finished forty-ninth out of ninety-two, scoring 4½/9 (+1–1=7). In March 2018, he competed in the
European Individual Chess Championship. He placed twenty-second, scoring 7½/11 (+4–0=7). In July 2019, Sarana won the Russian Championship Higher League with a score of 6½/9 (+4–0=5), qualifying for the Superfinals of 71st
Russian men's Chess championship. In the Superfinal, he finished 9th with a score of 5/11(+1-2=8).
In 2019, Sarana shared first place with
Alexandr Predke
Alexandr Aleksandrovich Predke (russian: Александр 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 ...
in the Russian Championship Higher League (second on tiebreak) with a score of 6½/9 (+4–0=5). With this result he qualified for the Superfinals of the Russian men's Chess championship for the second year in a row. In 2023 he won the
European Individual Chess Championship.
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In the Chess World Cup 2023, Sarana reached the round of 16 by defeating 6th seed Wesley So in the fourth round.
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2000 births
Living people
Russian chess players
Chess grandmasters
Chess players from Moscow
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