Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov (Russian: Алексей Дмитриевич Широв, Latvian: Aleksejs Širovs; born July 4, 1972) is a Soviet-born Spanish chess grandmaster .He has consistently ranked among the world's top players since the early 1990s, and reached a ranking as high as number four in 1998. Shirov is also a well-regarded chess author...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Shirov)
During the 1998 Linares chess tournament Shirov played black against future FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov and won by means of an incredible move that is placed number one in John Emms' book "The Most Amazing Chess Moves of All Time" and was described by GM\Nigel Short as follows "It was perhaps one of the greatest moves I have seen in my life"
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