Alexei Fedorov is a chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 grandmaster. Until 1992 he played for the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, then briefly for Russia

Russia

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 and from 1993 for the Belarus

Belarus

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 chess association.

Fedorov became an International Master in 1992 and a grandmaster in 1996. He won the Belarusian Chess Championship

Belarusian Chess Championship

The 65th Belarusian Chess Championship was held 18–28 February 1999.GM Viacheslav Dydyshko won the 12-player, single round-robin tournament , earning his tenth championship in 26 attempts.-References:**...

 in 1993, 1995, 2005 and 2008 and participated in seven Chess Olympiads with a performance of 54.3% (+22=32-16). He took part in the FIDE world Chess Championship in 1999

FIDE World Chess Championship 1999

The FIDE World Chess Championship 1999 was held in Las Vegas, United States, between 31 July and 28 August 1999. The championship was won by Russian Alexander Khalifman, making him the FIDE World Chess Champion.-Format:...

, 2000

FIDE World Chess Championship 2000

The FIDE World Chess Championship 2000 was held in New Delhi, India, and Tehran, Iran. The first six rounds were played in New Delhi between 27 November and 15 December 2000, and the final match in Tehran started on 20 December and ended on 24 December 2000...

 and 2002

FIDE World Chess Championship 2002

The FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 was held in Moscow, Russia. The first six rounds were played between 27 November and 14 December 2001, and the final match started on 16 January and ended on 23 January 2002...

. In 1999 he was knocked out in the fourth round, while in 2000 and 2002 he was knocked out in the first round.

Fedorov is considered to be an opening specialist on the King's Gambit

King's Gambit

The King's Gambit is a chess opening that begins with the moves:White offers a pawn to divert the Black e-pawn so as to build a strong centre with d2–d4...

 and the Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation

Sicilian Defence, Dragon Variation

In chess, the Dragon Variation is one of the main lines of the Sicilian Defence and begins with the moves:The name "Dragon" was first coined by Russian chess master and amateur astronomer Fyodor Dus-Chotimirsky who noted the resemblance of Black's kingside pawn structure to the constellation...

.

Selected Tournament results

• Participated at the prestigious Corus chess tournament
  Corus chess tournament
  The Tata Steel Chess Tournament formerly called the Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands...
  
   in 2001. Won by Garry Kasparov
  Garry Kasparov
  Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist, and one of the greatest chess players of all time....
  
  , Fedorov ended shared 10th place
• Shared first at Aeroflot Open
  Aeroflot Open
  The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot. It was established in 2002 and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament. The first event had around 80 grandmasters, while in the second event 150 grandmasters participated...
  
  , 2003 (third place on tie-break)
• First at the 4th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament in 2006 (with 9 points out of 10)

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