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Alexander Beliavsky

Researchers / independent engineers · Chess · milestone at age 20 ·T2 Field-leading

Milestone (age 20)

Won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1973, shared first place in the USSR Chess Championship in 1974, and was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 1975.

Beliavsky was born in Lviv and trained under Viktor Kart in the Soviet chess system. He was coached by Botvinnik and Boleslavsky before the 1973 World Junior Championship, which he won. He then shared first place with Mikhail Tal at the 1974 USSR Championship and earned the Grandmaster title in 1975.

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Starting point

Born in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union; family background not documented in reviewed sources.

Current position (2025)

Chess grandmaster living in Slovenia; FIDE rating approximately 2416 (2026); plays for Slovenian national team since 1996; also a FIDE Senior Trainer.

How this path compounded

01 Starting advantages

7/24 starting-position score

Strongest documented signals: Elite institution pipeline, Dedicated mentor / coach, Frontier geography.

Describes the starting position, not what the person later made of it.

Cohort percentile: 57

02 Built or converted leverage

12/25 multiplying-capacity score

Strongest observed levers:Domain proximity, Started serious reps before 20, Prior reps.

Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.

Cohort percentile: 38

03 Compounding trajectory

7 documented steps

The timeline below shows the sequence of work and transitions around the selected early milestone. It is evidence of a path, not proof that every step was necessary.

Milestone at age 20

04 Observed career standing

T2 · Field-leading

Dominant figure at the top of a field. The tier summarizes documented career recognition through the data cutoff—not Alexander Beliavsky's worth or future potential.

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Question four · where did the leverage come from?

Alexander Beliavsky's leverage provenance

Each non-zero lever gets a best-supported origin, evidence signals, and confidence. Unresolved is the honest default when the biography cannot distinguish self-built, advantage-enabled, earned, external, or mixed.

Started serious reps before 201/1

Advantage-enabledmedium confidence

One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.

Dedicated mentor / coach (2/2)Elite institution pipeline (2/2)

Domain proximity2/2

Advantage-enabledmedium confidence

One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.

Direct domain exposure (1/2)Frontier geography (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (2/2)

Prior reps2/3

Advantage-enabledmedium confidence

One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.

Dedicated mentor / coach (2/2)Elite institution pipeline (2/2)

Scarce skill depth2/3

Advantage-enabledmedium confidence

One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.

Dedicated mentor / coach (2/2)Elite institution pipeline (2/2)

Elite ecosystem network2/3

Advantage-enabledmedium confidence

One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.

Elite institution pipeline (2/2)Frontier geography (1/2)

Concentration intensity2/3

Advantage-enabledmedium confidence

One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.

Dedicated mentor / coach (2/2)

Structural wave / timing1/3

Externalmedium confidence

A structural wave is external to the person, even when their position improved access to it.

Frontier geography (1/2)

This is a bounded inference from the current annotations—not a claim about private effort, merit, or the percentage of Alexander Beliavsky's outcome attributable to any origin.

Luck is not a leftover score.

Structural luck, Encounter luck, Event luck, Outcome variance can change every arrow in the path. This successful-only dataset cannot observe the near-identical paths that did not break through, so luck stays visible and unscored.

Within Researchers / independent engineers, Alexander Beliavsky's starting-advantage total is at the 57th percentile. Separately, their built or converted leverage total is at the 38th percentile. Other T2 profiles average 7.9 / 24 starting advantage and 12.3 / 25 leverage. Similar scores appear in other tiers, so these figures describe positioning—not a cause.

Trajectory

1973 · age 20
Won the World Junior Chess Championship in Teesside, England
Earned the International Master title.
1974 · age 21
Won the USSR Chess Championship
Sharing first place with Mikhail Tal.
1975 · age 22
Awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE.
1980 · age 27
Won his second USSR Chess Championship.
1984 · age 31
Played top board for the USSR team that
Won gold at the Chess Olympiad in Lucerne.
1985 · age 32
Reached peak world ranking of No. 4.
1997 · age 44
Achieved peak FIDE rating of 2710.

Primary leverage engine

Technical depth

Scarce technical / intellectual depth

Secondary engine

Elite chess ecosystem

Built/converted leverage

12 / 25

evidence: High

Built or converted leverage

Multiplying capacity documented later in the path. Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.

Started serious reps before 20

1/1

Prior reps

2/3

Scarce skill depth

2/3

Native distribution

0/3

Elite ecosystem network

2/3

Complementary team

0/2

Structural wave / timing

1/3

Concentration intensity

2/3

Capital safety

0/2

Domain proximity

2/2

Starting-advantage scores (0–2 each)

Access or conditions documented near the beginning of the path. Zero means "no clear evidence in reviewed sources," not "advantage was absent."

Family financial platform

0/2

Parent / family domain

0/2

Inherited audience / network

0/2

Elite institution pipeline

2/2

Frontier geography

1/2

Rare early tools

0/2

Dedicated mentor / coach

2/2

Exceptional peer / cofounder

0/2

Early online platform

0/2

Direct domain exposure

1/2

Prodigy / innate ability

1/2

Adversity / constraint catalyst

0/2

Family context

Not documented in reviewed sources; born in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.

Parent / family domain

Not documented in reviewed sources.

Archetype & tags

Mentor-acceleratedsoviet chess systembotvinnik coachingworld junior champion 1973ussr champion 1974grandmaster 1975

Evidence summary

Beliavsky emerged from the Soviet chess development system in Lviv, receiving elite-level coaching from Botvinnik and Boleslavsky before winning the 1973 World Junior Championship at age 20. He then won the USSR Championship in 1974 (shared with Tal) and earned the Grandmaster title in 1975. The Soviet chess pipeline provided intensive training and competitive immersion. His mentorship under Botvinnik, the former world champion, was a particularly scarce advantage. No family background information was found in reviewed sources.

advantage confidence: Medium · source count: 4 · audit: not_independently_audited · status: subagent_researched_beta

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