GM Aleksandr Rakhmanov

Aleksandr Rakhmanov is a Russian grandmaster. In 2007, he placed third in both the European U-18 Championship and the World U-18 Championship. The next year, he won the Paleochora Open and the Heraklion Open. In the Chess World Cup 2019, he defeated higher-seeded GM Nils Grandelius 1.5-.5 to make it to the second round, where he lost to GM Vidit Gujrathi. Rakhmanov is ranked in the world’s top-100 players (as of March 2021).

Best Game

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

English Opening: King's English, Nimzowitsch Variation (48 games)

Nimzo-Indian Defense: Bishop Attack, Classical Defense (45 games)

French Defense: Steiner Variation (34 games)

English Opening: Anglo-Indian, Queen's Knight Variation (31 games)

English Opening: Great Snake Variation (25 games)

Black Pieces

Sicilian Defense: Nimzowitsch, Closed (59 games)

Old Indian Defense (57 games)

Sicilian Defense: Nimzowitsch, Advance, Exchange Variation (52 games)

Scandinavian Defense: Mieses-Kotrč, Gubinsky-Melts Defense (39 games)

Queen's Gambit Declined (23 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Aleksandr Rakhmanov (2621) Kamil Dragun (2466)	1-0	25	2024
Aleksandr Rakhmanov (2616) Samant Aditya S (2459)	1-0	48	2024
Aleksandr Rakhmanov (2604) Pablo Salinas Herrera (2511)	1-0	38	2024
Aleksandr Rakhmanov (2614) Amin Tabatabaei (2719)	1-0	62	2024
Aleksandr Rakhmanov (2866) Namitbir Singh Walia (2485)	1-0	57	2024
Aleksandr Rakhmanov (2861) Sergei Iskusnyh (2675)	1-0	26	2024
Aleksandr Rakhmanov (2871) Haoxiang Jia (2623)	1-0	34	2024
Aleksandr Rakhmanov (2860) Samarth J Rao (1925)	1-0	51	2024
Aleksandr Rakhmanov (2870) Alexey Kislinsky (2663)	1-0	37	2024
Aleksandr Rakhmanov (2864) Shahdad Teimouri Yadkuri (2602)	1-0	37	2024

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