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Alexander Onischuk (Ukrainian: Олександр Васильович Оніщук, romanized: Oleksandr Vasylʹovych Onishchuk; born September 3, 1975) is a Ukrainian-American chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994, and won the 2006 U.S. championship.

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Alexander Onischuk
Onischuk plays a game for the U.S.
Country	Soviet Union (until 1991) Ukraine (1991–2002) United States (since 2002)
Born	(1975-09-03) September 3, 1975 (age 46) Sevastopol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster (1994)
FIDE rating	2640 (August 2022)
Peak rating	2701 (July 2010)

Career

In 1991 Onischuk finished second in the world under 16 championship and in 1993 he was fourth in the world junior championship, tying for first and finished second on tie-breaks two years later. In 2000 he won the Ukrainian Championship. He represented Ukraine in the Chess Olympiad in 1994, 1996 and 1998.

Onischuk immigrated to the United States in 2001. He competed in the US Championship, winning the tournament in 2006, finishing 2nd in 2007, 2008 and 2017 and finishing 3rd four more times.

He played in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 and 2004, and in the FIDE World Cup every year between 2007 and 2017. He also represented the US in six Chess Olympiads and seven World Team Chess Championships.

In the fall of 2012, Onischuk became the head coach at Texas Tech University.[1] Under his coaching, the Texas Tech University Chess Program has won the 2015-2016 and 2019-2020 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championships and played in the President's cup 5 times.

In 2018 he was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame.[2]

References

External links

• Alexander Onischuk rating card at FIDE
• Alexander Onischuk rating and tournament record at US Chess Federation
• Alexander Onischuk player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Alexander Onischuk chess games at 365Chess.com
• Alexander Onischuk Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org
• Alexander Onischuk player profile at Chess.com
• Superadas expectativas en el Abierto Mexicano 2010 (fenamac.org.mx) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-04-09) (in Spanish)

Preceded by Hikaru Nakamura	United States Chess Champion 2006	Succeeded by Alexander Shabalov

На других языках

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- [en] Alexander Onischuk

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[es] Alexander Onischuk

Alexander Onischuk (Sebastopol, Crimea, Ucrania; 3 de septiembre de 1975).Es un Gran Maestro Internacional de ajedrez nacionalizado en Estados Unidos de América.

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[ru] Онищук, Александр Васильевич

Александр Васильевич Онищук (род. 3 сентября 1975, Симферополь) — американский, ранее украинский шахматист, гроссмейстер (1994). Окончил социологический факультет МГУ.

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