Alexander Kochyev

Alexander Vasilyevich Kochyev (Russian: Александр Васильевич Кочиев; born March 25, 1956, in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (1979).

Alexander Kochyev
Full name	Александр Кочиев
Country	Russia
Born	(1956-03-25) March 25, 1956 (age 69) Saint Petersburg
Title	Grandmaster (1979)
Peak rating	2555 (January 1978)
Peak ranking	No. 31 (January 1978)

In the 1970s, he was one of the youngest grandmasters in the world.^[1] In 1972, he won the Soviet Union Junior Chess Championship^[2] and in 1975, became European Junior Champion.^[3] He came 12th in the USSR Chess Championship of 1977.^[4] In 1978, he won the team silver and individual gold medal playing board two for the Soviet team at the 1st World Youth U26 Team Chess Championship.^[5] In 1979, he won the Reggio Emilia chess tournament.^[6]