Aleksander Delchev

{{short description|Bulgarian chess grandmaster and writer (born 1971)|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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|caption = Aleksander Delchev at Dresden

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|country = Bulgaria (until 2024)
Serbia (since 2024)

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1971|7|15|df=y}}

|birth_place = Sofia, Bulgaria

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|title = Grandmaster (1997)

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|peakrating = 2669 (October 2005)

|peakranking = No. 36 (October 2005)

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Aleksander Delchev ({{langx|bg|Александър Делчев}}; born 15 July 1971) is a Bulgarian chess player and writer currently representing Serbia. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1997.

Delchev won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 1994, 1996 and 2001. He played for the Bulgarian national team in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 with a performance of 64.6% (+36=34-12).[http://www.olimpbase.org/players/zbjvhf1i.html Men's Chess Olympiads: Alexander Delchev]. OlimpBase.

Selected tournament victories include the European Junior Chess Championship (1991–1992), the 47th Reggio Emilia chess tournament (2004–2005),{{Cite web |url=http://www.ippogrifoscacchi.it/tdc_storia.asp |title=Circolo Scacchistico Ippogrifo {{!}} Reggio Emilia{{!}} |access-date=2008-05-16 |archive-date=2009-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130210221/http://www.ippogrifoscacchi.it/tdc_storia.asp |url-status=dead }} the 4th Open Master at the Sixth International Chess Festival in Benidorm (2007),[http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4336 ChessBase.com - Chess News - Chess Festival in Benidorm – where a new genre is born] the International Open Championship of Croatia (2007)[http://chesslodge.blogspot.com/2007/12/international-open-championship-of.html Chess news and events: International Open Championship of Croatia] and the Open International Bavarian Chess Championship in Bad Wiessee (2005{{cite web|last1=Crowther|first1=Mark|title=TWIC 574: 9th Offene Internationale Bayerische Schach Meisterschaft|url=http://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic574.html#9|publisher=The Week in Chess|accessdate=2 November 2015|date=2005-11-07}} and 2013).{{cite web|title=GM Delchev wins Bavarian International Championship 2013 |url=http://www.ecuonline.net/com/news/pdf/533.html |publisher=European Chess Union |accessdate=2 November 2015 |date=2013-11-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064204/http://www.ecuonline.net/com/news/pdf/533.html |archivedate=4 March 2016 }} In 2011 he tied for 2nd-7th with Julio Granda, Ivan Šarić, Pablo Almagro Llamas, Maxim Turov and Mihail Marin at the 31st Villa de Benasque Open.{{cite web|url=http://tournaments.chessdom.com/news-2011/benasque-open|title=Tigran Petrosian Victorious in Benasque Open|publisher=Chessdom|accessdate=17 July 2011|archive-date=5 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205042411/http://tournaments.chessdom.com/news-2011/benasque-open|url-status=dead}}