Editing Alexander Beliavsky (section)

==Career==

Beliavsky won the [[World Junior Chess Championship]] in 1973 and the [[USSR Chess Championship]] four times (in 1974, 1980, 1987 and 1990).

In the 1982–84 [[World Chess Championship]] cycle, he qualified for the [[Candidates Tournament]], losing to eventual winner [[Garry Kasparov]] in the quarterfinals of the [[World Chess Championship 1984|1983 Candidates matches]]. Beliavsky played on the top board for the USSR team that won the gold medal in the [[1984 Chess Olympiad]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chesspro.ru/interview/beliavsky_interview|last=Vasiliev|first=Yuri|title=АЛЕКСАНДР БЕЛЯВСКИЙ: ИГРАЮЩИЙ ДИНОЗАВР|website=ChessPro|date=8 June 2015|language=ru|access-date=4 December 2016}}</ref> Beliavsky was a mainstay at international tournaments throughout the eighties and early nineties, however, he did not perform to the highest levels. In the 1985-87 Candidates he finished 7/16, and neither did he qualify for the 1988-90 Candidates tournament nor the 1994-95 PCA Candidates tournament.

In tournaments, he was first equal at [[Baden bei Wien]] 1980, first at [[Tilburg]] 1981, second equal at Tilburg 1984, joint winner at [[Tata Steel Chess Tournament|Wijk aan Zee]] 1984 and joint second at the same event a year later. At the second [[Russia (USSR) vs Rest of the World]] match in 1984, he was the top scorer for the victorious Soviet team, defeating [[Yasser Seirawan]] 2–0 and [[Bent Larsen]] 1½–½. Beliavsky won the [[Vidmar Memorial]] tournament four times: in 1999, 2001, 2003 (with [[Emil Sutovsky]]) and 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sah-zveza.si/mv12/mvarc.html|title=Dr. Milan Vidmar Memorial Tournaments|publisher=sah-zveza.si|access-date=6 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208055909/http://www.sah-zveza.si/mv12/mvarc.html|archive-date=8 February 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> He finished third in the [[Linares International Chess Tournament|Linares]] tournament of 1991, behind [[Vasyl Ivanchuk]] and [[Garry Kasparov]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Linares (1991) |url=https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=94061 |website=Chessgames |access-date=10 July 2021}}</ref>

From September 2009 to May 2010, he was the oldest person among the [[FIDE World Rankings|world's top 100 active players]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=149|title=Top 100 Players September 2009 - Archive|publisher=[[FIDE]]|access-date=7 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=153|title=Top 100 Players November 2009 - Archive|publisher=[[FIDE]]|access-date=7 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=157|title=Top 100 Players January 2010 - Archive|publisher=[[FIDE]]|access-date=7 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=161|title=Top 100 Players March 2010 - Archive|publisher=[[FIDE]]|access-date=7 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=165|title=Top 100 Players May 2010 - Archive|publisher=[[FIDE]]|access-date=7 September 2023}}</ref> and he made a brief reappearance in June 2013 at age 59.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=261|title=Top 100 Players June 2013 - Archive|publisher=[[FIDE]]|access-date=7 September 2023}}</ref> He competed at the [[2009 Maccabiah Games]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/2013-maccabiah-games---the-jewish-olympics-240713|last=Soffer|first=Ram|author-link=Ram Soffer|title=2013 Maccabiah Games - The Jewish Olympics|date=2013-07-24|website=Chess News|publisher=ChessBase|access-date=2019-11-14}}</ref> In 2013 he tied for 1st–8th places with [[Alexander Moiseenko]], [[Evgeny Romanov (chess player)|Evgeny Romanov]], [[Hrant Melkumyan]], [[Constantin Lupulescu]], [[Francisco Vallejo Pons]], [[Sergei Movsesian]], [[Ian Nepomniachtchi]], [[Alexey Dreev]] and [[Evgeny Alekseev (chess player)|Evgeny Alekseev]] in the [[European Individual Chess Championship]], thus qualifying for the [[Chess World Cup 2013|FIDE World Cup]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theweekinchess.com/chessnews/events/14th-european-individual-championships-2013|title=14th European Individual Championships 2013|last=Crowther|first=Mark|date=2013-05-16|website=The Week in Chess|access-date=18 May 2013}}</ref>

Beliavsky shares [[List of world records in chess#Most wins against world champions|the record for having defeated the most undisputed world champions]]. He has defeated nine - every undisputed world champion from [[Vassily Smyslov]] to [[Magnus Carlsen]] except [[Bobby Fischer]] - a record he shares with [[Paul Keres]] and [[Victor Korchnoi]].