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Alexander Motylev was born on 17 June, 1979 in Sverdlosk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, is a Russian chess grandmaster (born 1979). Discover Alexander Motylev's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 44 years old?

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Age 44 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 17 June, 1979
Birthday 17 June
Birthplace Sverdlosk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality Russia

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1979

Alexander Anatolyevich Motylev (Александр Анатольевич Мотылёв; born 17 June 1979) is a Russian chess grandmaster.

1998

Motylev was the runner-up in the 1998 European Junior Chess Championship, won by Levon Aronian.

2001

He was Russian champion in 2001 and European champion in 2014.

He learnt how to play at the age of four and a half years and at age six took part in group instruction sessions.

Motylev became a Candidate Master at eleven years old.

Around this time, he was also gifted at football, a sport for which he had major aspirations.

Made aware of his split loyalties by his chess coach, Motylev's physical education teacher advised him to concentrate on chess and this proved to be good advice, as he went on to become national junior champion at both under 16 and under 18 level.

In 2001, he won the Russian Chess Championship and played for the national team in the World Team Chess Championship, where he contributed to the team silver medal scoring 2/3.

2002

In 2002, he was invited to take part in the Russia vs Rest of the World match in Moscow and, in the company of the world's elite players, scored 1/6.

2003

In 2003, he won the Corsican Open at Bastia, ahead of a strong field including Loek van Wely, Krishnan Sasikiran and Sergei Tiviakov.

2004

In 2004, Motylev won the Tomsk qualifier and in the Superfinal of the 57th Russian Championship he finished fourth, behind Garry Kasparov, with whom Motylev drew, Alexander Grischuk and Alexey Dreev.

2005

In 2005, he tied for first in the Aeroflot Open.

Later that year, Motylev finished second at the 2nd Sanjin Hotel Cup, behind Pentala Harikrishna, whom he defeated, and qualified again for the Russian Superfinal, this time by finishing equal third in Kazan.

2006

In 2006, he was the joint winner of the Corus B Tournament in Wijk aan Zee with Magnus Carlsen.

2008

Motylev finished second, behind Ian Nepomniachtchi, in the Aeroflot Open 2008.

2009

In June 2009, he won the 10th Anatoly Karpov International Tournament (pl) (category 18, 2694) in Poikovsky, Russia.

2011

In the latter he scored 4/11, tying for 11th-12th place with Ildar Khairullin and placing last on tiebreak.

2014

Motylev won the 2014 European Individual Chess Championship in Yerevan with 9/11 and a rating performance of 2872, the best performance in the event's history.

In April 2014, he took clear second place, behind Pavel Eljanov, in the B tournament of the Vugar Gashimov Memorial in Şəmkir, Azerbaijan.

In July of the same year, he participated in the Biel Grandmaster Tournament and scored 3.5/10 (+1 =5 –4), finishing last.

2015

He placed equal first (second on tiebreak) in the 2015 Russian Championship Higher League with 6.5/9 and qualified for the Superfinal.

2017

In 2017 Motylev won the Russian Rapid Chess Championship in Sochi.

In August 2022 in Barcelona he reached second place at the 23rd Sants Open, scoring 7.5/10.

Motylev switched to the Romanian Chess Federation in June 2023 and is currently working as Technical Director of Romanian National Teams.

His father Anatoly is a FIDE Master.

Together with 43 other Russian elite chess players, Motylev signed an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin, protesting against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian people.