Alexandr Predke

Alexandr Aleksandrovich Predke (Russian: Александр Александрович Предке, Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Александрович Предке; born 5 January 1994) is a Russian-born Serbian chess grandmaster (2016).

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Aleksandrovich and the family name is Predke.

Alexandr Predke
Country	Russia (until May 2022) FIDE (2022)[a] Serbia (since March 2023)[3]
Born	(1994-01-05) 5 January 1994 (age 31) Dimitrovgrad, Russia
Title	Grandmaster (2016)
FIDE rating	2617 (August 2025)
Peak rating	2696 (November 2020)
Peak ranking	No. 40 (November 2020)

Biography

Predke started playing chess at the age of seven. He is an alumnus of the Tolyatti chess school.^[4] In 2010, he won the Russian Youth Chess Championship in the U16 age group. In 2014, he was third in the Russian Junior Championship in the U20 age group. In 2017, in Samara he was second in the Lev Polugaevsky memorial.^[5] In August 2018, he finished third in the Riga Technical University Open "A" tournament.^[6]

In 2016, he was awarded the FIDE International Grandmaster (GM) title.^[7]

Notes

1. Several Russian players' officially switched federations in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[1][2]