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Alexander Cherniaev

Russian chess player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ4514447 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alexander Sergeevich Cherniaev is a Russian chess grandmaster who plays for England.

Chess career

In November 2007, he won the "First Thursday of the month" blitz tournament at the Hendon Chess Club.

In January 2019, he tied for first place with Daniel Gormally, Oleg Korneev, Šarūnas Šulskis, Martin Petrov, and Conor Murphy at the 94th Hastings Congress.

In July 2019, he gave a lecture and held a simultaneous exhibition in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada as part of the Canadian Open.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alexander Cherniaev” as russian chess player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-08-26. The account is most persuasive where Alexander, Cherniaev and Russian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as russian chess player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4514447. VIAF identifies the subject as 96832596. The Library of Congress control number is no2009123128. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007 and 2019.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
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  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Alexander Cherniaev” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.