Alexander Graf

{{short description|Uzbekistani-German chess grandmaster (born 1962)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox chess biography |name = Alexander Graf |image = Graf alexander2 20081024 berlin lichtenrader herbst.jpg |caption = |full_name =  |country = [[Uzbekistan]] (until 2001)<br/>[[Germany]] (since 2001) |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|08|25|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Tashkent]], [[Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic]], [[Soviet Union|USSR]] |death_date = |death_place = |title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (1992) |rating =  |peakrating = 2661 (July 2004) |peakranking = No. 38 (April 2001) |FideID = 4680804 }}

'''Alexander Graf''' (''né'' '''Nenashev'''; born 25 August 1962) is an Uzbekistani-German [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (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 [[30th Chess Olympiad|1992 Chess Olympiad]] 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.<ref name=badwiessee>{{cite web|last=Crowther|first=Mark|title=TWIC 314: 4th OIBM in Bad Wiessee|url=http://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic314.html#9|publisher=The Week in Chess|accessdate=1 November 2015|date=2000-11-13}}</ref> In the same year he won the 2nd [[Dubai]] Open<ref>{{cite web|last=Crowther|first=Mark|title=TWIC 290: Dubai Open|url=http://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic290.html#9|publisher=The Week in Chess|accessdate=9 October 2015|date=2000-05-29}}</ref> and the 4th ''Offene Internationale Bayerische Schach Meisterschaft'' ("Open International Bavarian Chess Championship") in [[Bad Wiessee]].<ref name=badwiessee/> In 2001 he took his father's surname "Graf" and started to represent Germany.<ref>{{cite web|last=Crowther|first=Mark|title=TWIC 335: April FIDE List|url=http://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic335.html#3|publisher=The Week in Chess|accessdate=1 November 2015|date=2001-04-09}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Graf gewinnt in Bad Wiessee|url=http://de.chessbase.com/post/graf-gewinnt-in-bad-wieee|publisher=ChessBase|accessdate=1 November 2015|language=German|date=2011-11-07}}</ref>

==Personal life== Alexander Graf is [[List of chess families|married]] to German-Azerbaijani Woman Grandmaster [[Rena Graf]] (Mamedova).<ref>[http://www.genios.de/presse-archiv/artikel/FAZ/20010310/alexander-graf-alias-nenaschew-uebe/FD220010310823042.html Alexander Graf alias Nenaschew überholt seine Landsleute] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018161717/http://www.genios.de/presse-archiv/artikel/FAZ/20010310/alexander-graf-alias-nenaschew-uebe/FD220010310823042.html |date=18 October 2018 }}. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 10 mart 2001, Nr. 59, S. 39</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{365Chess.com player|Alexander_Graf}} *{{Chessgames player|49248}} *{{OlimpBase player|820gsc0f}} *{{FIDE}}

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