Alexander Cherniaev

Alexander Sergeevich Cherniaev is a Russian chess grandmaster who plays for England.

Chess career
In November 2007, he won the "First Thursday of the month" blitz tournament at the Hendon Chess Club. In January 2019, he tied for first place with Daniel Gormally, Oleg Korneev, Šarūnas Šulskis, Martin Petrov, and Conor Murphy at the 94th Hastings Congress.

In July 2019, he gave a lecture and held a simultaneous exhibition in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada as part of the Canadian Open.