Alexander Graf

Alexander Graf (né Nenashev; born 25 August 1962) is an Uzbekistani-German chess grandmaster. He was Uzbekistani Chess Champion in 1989 and German Chess Champion in 2004.

Alexander Graf
Country	Uzbekistan (until 2001) Germany (since 2001)
Born	(1962-08-25) 25 August 1962 (age 62) Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR
Title	Grandmaster (1992)
FIDE rating	2520 (August 2025)
Peak rating	2661 (July 2004)
Peak ranking	No. 38 (April 2001)

Chess career

He won the Uzbekistani Chess Championship in 1989. Nenashev played for the silver medal-winning Uzbek team at the 1992 Chess Olympiad in Manila; he also won the individual gold medal on board three. In 1996 Nenashev won the Cappelle-la-Grande Open. In 2000 he took German citizenship.^[1] In the same year he won the 2nd Dubai Open^[2] and the 4th Offene Internationale Bayerische Schach Meisterschaft ("Open International Bavarian Chess Championship") in Bad Wiessee.^[1] In 2001 he took his father's surname "Graf" and started to represent Germany.^[3] Graf won the bronze medal in the 2003 European Individual Chess Championship. In 2004 he won the German Chess Championship. Graf won at Bad Wiessee for the second time in his career in 2011.^[4]

Personal life

Alexander Graf is married to German-Azerbaijani Woman Grandmaster Rena Graf (Mamedova).^[5]