Alexander Onischuk
{{Short description|Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster (born 1975)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Family name hatnote|Vasylovych|Onischuk|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{BLP sources|date=July 2020}}
{{Infobox chess player
| name = Alexander Onischuk
| image = Alex_Onischuk.jpg
| caption = Onischuk in 2022
| country = {{ubl|Soviet Union (until 1992)|Ukraine (1992–2002)|United States (since 2002)}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1975|9|3}}
| birth_place = Sevastopol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
| death_date =
| death_place =
| title = Grandmaster (1994)
| worldchampion =
| rating =
| peakrating = 2701 (July 2010)
| peakranking = No. 27 (July 1999){{cite web|url=https://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo199907e.html|title=FIDE Rating List :: July 1999|website=OlimpBase}}
| FideID = 14101025
}}
Alexander Vasylovych Onischuk{{efn|{{langx|uk|Олександр Васильович Оніщук|{{transliteration|uk|ukrainian|Oleksandr Vasylovych Onishchuk}}}}}}{{Cite web |title=OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Alexander Onischuk |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/seqc4emj.html |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=olimpbase.org}} born September 3, 1975) is a chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994, and won the 2006 U.S. championship.
Career
In 1991, Onischuk represented the Soviet Union and took 2nd place in the World under 16 championship. In 1993 he was fourth in the world junior championship, tying for first and finished second on tie-breaks two years later. In 1993 he became International Master, and in 1994 Grandmaster.{{Cite web |title=Onischuk, Alexander |url=https://ratings.fide.com/profile/14101025 |access-date=2023-07-21 |website=ratings.fide.com}} In 2000 he won the Ukrainian Championship. He represented Ukraine in the Chess Olympiad in 1994, 1996 and 1998.
Onischuk immigrated to the United States in 2001. He competed in the US Championship, winning the tournament in 2006, finishing 2nd in 2007, 2008 and 2017 and finishing 3rd four more times.
In 2002, Onischuk tied for first place at the U.S. Masters Chess Championship.
He played in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 and 2004, and in the FIDE World Cup every year between 2007 and 2017. He also represented the US in six Chess Olympiads and seven World Team Chess Championships.
In the fall of 2012, Onischuk became the head coach at Texas Tech University.{{cite web |url=http://today.ttu.edu/2012/07/national-champion-chess-program-hires-director-coach |title=National Champion Chess Program Hires Director, Coach |first=Callie |last=Jones |date=July 30, 2012 |access-date=2014-07-22 |work=Texas Tech Today |publisher=Texas Tech University |archive-date=2015-01-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111110210/http://today.ttu.edu/2012/07/national-champion-chess-program-hires-director-coach/ |url-status=dead }} Under his coaching, the [https://www.depts.ttu.edu/ttuchess/ Texas Tech University Chess Program] has won the 2015-2016 and 2019-2020 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championships and played in the President's cup 5 times.
In 2018 he was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame.{{cite web |url=https://worldchesshof.org/hof-inductee/alex-onischuk |title=Alex Onischuk – U.S. Chess Hall of Fame – Inducted 2018 |website=worldchesshof.org |date=February 20, 2018 |publisher=World Chess Hall of Fame }}
He was the Chief Organizer of 2018 and 2021 Texas Collegiate Super Finals and 2022 President's Cup – Final Four of College Chess.
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External links
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| before = Hikaru Nakamura
| title = United States Chess Champion
| years = 2006
| after = Alexander Shabalov
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Category:American chess players
Category:Chess Olympiad competitors
Category:People from Baltimore
Category:Sportspeople from Sevastopol
Category:Ukrainian chess players
Category:Ukrainian emigrants to the United States
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