Alexander Shabalov
Alexander Shabalov at the 2002 U.S. Chess Championships | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 12, 1967 Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Soviet Union (until 1991) Latvia (1992–1993) United States (since 1994) |
| Title | Grandmaster (1991) |
| FIDE rating | 2433 (March 2026) |
| Peak rating | 2645 (July 1998) |
| Peak ranking | No. 29 (July 1998) |
Alexander Anatolyevich Shabalov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Анато́льевич Шаба́лов; Latvian: Aleksandrs Šabalovs; born September 12, 1967) is an American chess grandmaster and a four-time winner of the United States Chess Championship (1993, 2000, 2003, 2007). He also won or tied for first place seven times in the U.S. Open Chess Championship (1993, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2015, 2016).