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Alexander Reprintsev

Ukrainian chess player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ27530683
Source-derived summary

Alexander Vasilyevich Reprintsev is a Ukrainian chess player.

Chess career

In June 2024, he won the Golden Prague Blitz Rating Open with an undefeated score of 10/11, also scoring one full point ahead of the runner-up.

In November 2025, he won the 65+ section of the World Senior Chess Championship. He had tied with five other players (including grandmasters Zurab Sturua and Nikolay Legky) but won due to tiebreak scores.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Alexander Reprintsev” is ukrainian chess player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Alexander, Reprintsev and Ukrainian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958-12-08. For this dossier, Alexander, Reprintsev and Ukrainian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “ukrainian chess player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27530683. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024 and 2025.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from Alexander Reprintsev” 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.