International Master (2015); Grandmaster (2017).
He scored 7.5/8 for his Russian team's 4th board at the 2014 World youth team chess Olympiad, returning in 2016 to score 6/8 for their same seat on the Russia WYCO team and 6.5/9 at the 2015 WYCO on 2nd board.
In February 2018, he participated in the Aeroflot Open. He finished forty-ninth out of ninety-two, scoring 4.5/9 (+1–1=7).4 In March 2018, he competed in the European Individual Chess Championship. He placed twenty-second,5 scoring 7.5/11 (+4–0=7). In July 2019, Sarana won the Russian Championship Higher League with a score of 6.5/9 (+4–0=5), qualifying for the Superfinals of 71st Russian men's Chess championship. In the Superfinal, he finished 9th with a score of 5/11(+1-2=8).
In 2019, Sarana shared first place with Alexandr Predke in the Russian Championship Higher League (second on tiebreak) with a score of 6½/9 (+4–0=5). With this result he qualified for the Superfinals of the Russian men's Chess championship for the second year in a row.
At the European Championship (2019) he went (+2 -0 =4)
He took part at the Russian Blitz Championship 2021 where he finished clear second.
Further reading: (1) http://wyco2014.chess.hu/?lang=en (finished with a team silver), (2) http://www.chess-results.com/tnr153... , (3) http://wyco2016chess.sk/en/ (finished with a team silver), (4) http://wyco2015.mongolchess.mn/ (finished with a team bronze).
Wikipedia article: Alexey Sarana
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