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"Alexander Grischuk Chess Club" - As of 1 January 2015, Grischuk's ratings and rankings were as follows: <Standard> 2810 (Russian #1; world #3); <Rapid> 2846 (world #3); and <Blitz> 2852 (world #3). http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=337 Grischuk is credited as saying in respect of World championship aspirations that "In Russia we have a saying: a soldier who doesn't want to be a General, is a bad soldier." Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (Russian: Алекса́ндр И́горевич Грищу́к; born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster and Russian Champion in 2009. He has won two team gold medals and one individual bronze medal at Chess Olympiads. He was a member of the gold-medal winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship in Antalya 2013. He has also won the World Blitz Chess Championships of 2006 and 2012. Please join us! Regards!