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December 2007 Morozevich won the Russian Championship for the second time, winning the last six rounds. In June 2008 Morozevich won the Bosna tournament in Sarajevo with a margin of 1½ points ahead of second place. Two months later he shared second place in the
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after leading the tournament in early rounds. While officially being fourth in the world, Morozevich unofficially climbed to the top spot of the world rating list, but fell back to fourth by the end of the tournament.
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2002 first 9/11, 2003 shared second 7/11, 2004 first 8½/11, 2005 shared second 6/11, 2006 first 9½/11, 2007 shared second 7/11, 2008 shared first 6/11 and in 2009 shared fourth with Anand 6½/11.
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In Wijk aan Zee 2001 Morozevich became the first player to defeat World
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candidate (2005, 2007), two-time
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in 2005 in which he beat the member of the
Chinese team in the last round in a must win situation. He also won two gold medals in the
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he won the gold medal with the
Russian team three times (1998, 2000, 2002), one silver medal (2004) and a bronze medal (1994).
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He has won both the Melody Amber (alone 2002, shared 2004, 2006, 2008) and Biel (2003, 2004, 2006) tournaments several times.
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Morozevich is known for his aggressive and unusual playing style. His peak ranking was second in the world in July 2008.
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Morozevich is known to be an aggressive player with an unorthodox opening repertoire. He has on occasion played the
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Governor's Cup in Russia with a score 8½/11, one and a half points ahead of the field, and a performance of 2917.
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While in recent years, Morozevich has not been very active in chess competition, he has taken up Go. He has a
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played in New Delhi. Due to his rating he was seeded directly into the second round, in which he eliminated
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tournament with a score of 6 points out of 7 and an Elo performance of 2951. He shared second place with
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and finished in fourth scoring 5½ points of 9. In beginning of 2000 Morozevich participated at the
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tournament with the time control of 15 minutes plus 6 seconds per move. In 2014 he won the 15th
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His first win in an international tournament was in 1994, when at the age of 17 he won the
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In 2007, Morozevich published, along with co-author
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tournament in London with a score of 9½ points out of 10. In 1994 he also won the
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in the world. He has confirmed that status in blindfold sections of
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In June 2011 he won the
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Morozevich had great successes in team competitions: in the
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International tournament in
Poikovsky. Morozevich won the
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258:In 1999 he played in his first super-tournament in
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397:In February 2012 Morozevich came first in the
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468:The Chigorin Defence According to Morozevich
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227:In 1997 Morozevich was the top seed at the
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351:In December 2006, he won the strong
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190:player. He was awarded the title of
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575:Hans Arild Runde (24 August 2008).
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186:; born July 18, 1977) is a Russian
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435:He also won the gold medal in the
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164:Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich
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411:Magistral Ciutat de
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45:Alexander Morozevich
873:Sporting positions
457:Albin Countergambit
338:San Luis, Argentina
978:Russian Go players
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361:Linares tournament
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303:Vladislav Tkachiev
200:World Championship
56:Morozevich in 2008
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513:References
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284:Peter Leko
249:Lembit Oll
233:Tal Shaked
84:1977-07-18
37:Morozevich
25:patronymic
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689:2 October
466:, called
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403:rapidplay
274:ahead of
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353:Pamplona
260:Sarajevo
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235:, in a
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