Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov (Russian: Алексей Дмитриевич Широв Latvian: Aleksejs Širovs; born July 4 1972) is a Soviet-born Latvian chess grandmaster. He has consistently ranked among the world’s top players since the early 1990s and reached a ranking as high as number four in 1998. Shirov is also a well-regarded chess author.
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1972-07-04
birth name
Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov
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Riga, Soviet Union, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
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