Alex Yermolinsky

Alex Yermolinsky
Alex Yermolinsky
	Yermolinsky at the 2003 U.S. Championships in Seattle, Washington
Country	Soviet Union (until 1991); United States (since 1991)
Born	April 11, 1958 (age 66); Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster (1992)
FIDE rating	2402 (December 2024)
Peak rating	2660 (January 1998)
Peak ranking	No. 21 (January 1998)

Alex Yermolinsky (Russian: Алексей Ермолинский, romanized: Alexey Yermolinskiy; born April 11, 1958) is an American chess player. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1992, he is a two-time U.S. champion.

Career

Yermolinsky tied for first with Vladislav Vorotnikov in the Leningrad City Chess Championship in 1985. In 1993, Yermolinsky won the U.S. Chess Championship, tying for first place with Alexander Shabalov. In 1996 he was the sole champion. He won the World Open in Philadelphia three times: in 1993, 1995 and 1996; in 1999 he shared first with nine other players, but Gregory Serper won the playoff. In 2001 he won the American Continental Championship in Cali, Colombia.^[1]

In 2012 Yermolinsky was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame.^[2]

He is a regular commentator and presenter on the Internet Chess Club.

Books

Yermolinsky, Alex (2000). Road to Chess Improvement. Gambit Publications. ISBN 1-901983-24-2.
Yermolinsky, Alex (2006). Chess Explained: The Classical Sicilian. Gambit Publications. ISBN 1-904600-42-5.

References

^ "The Week in Chess 355". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
^ Sands, David R. (October 23, 2012). "'The Yerminator' enters U.S. Chess Hall of Fame". Washington Times. Retrieved January 10, 2016.

External links

Alex Yermolinsky chess games at 365Chess.com
Alex Yermolinsky player profile and games at Chessgames.com
Alex Yermolinsky FIDE rating history at OlimpBase.org
Alexander Yermolinsky Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org
GM Alexander Yermolinsky. United States Chess Federation.

Preceded by Patrick Wolff	United States Chess Champion 1993 (with Alexander Shabalov)	Succeeded by Boris Gulko
Preceded by Nick de Firmian, Patrick Wolff, and Alexander Ivanov	United States Chess Champion 1996	Succeeded by Joel Benjamin

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[1] "The Week in Chess 355". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved July 2, 2019.

[2] Sands, David R. (October 23, 2012). "'The Yerminator' enters U.S. Chess Hall of Fame". Washington Times. Retrieved January 10, 2016.

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v t e American grandmasters
Chess players for the United States with the FIDE title of grandmaster (GM) by title decade
1950–1959	Benko Bisguier Evans Fine Fischer Kashdan Reshevsky Rossolimo
1960–1969	Byrne Kavalek Lombardy
1970–1979	Alburt Biyiasas Christiansen Dzindzichashvili Gulko Palatnik Rogoff Tarjan
1980–1989	Benjamin D. Gurevich Dake De Firmian Denker Dlugy Ehlvest Fedorowicz Goldin Henley Kaidanov Kudrin Mednis Rohde Seirawan Soltis Wilder Zaichik
1990–1999	Akopian Annakov Becerra Bruzón Fishbein I. Gurevich Ivanov Kamsky Novikov Onischuk Sagalchik Schwartzman Serper Shabalov Shaked Sher Sherzer Shulman Stripunsky Wolff Yermolinsky
2000–2009	Akobian Aronian Ashley Bhat Caruana Domínguez Erenburg Finegold Friedel Gareyev González Hernández Hess Izoria Jimenez Kaufman Khachiyan Kraai Kreiman Moradi Nakamura Perelshteyn Quesada Ramírez So Świercz Zherebukh Ziatdinov
2010–2019	Antipov Arnold Brown Burke Chandra Checa Holt Hungaski Krush Lenderman Li Liang Molner Naroditsky Oparin Robson Sevian Sevillano Shankland Smith Tang Troff Xiong Yang Zierk
2020–2029	Balakrishnan Brodsky Daggupati Fernandez Guo Hong Jacobson Mishra Niemann Sheng Sturt Tiglon Woodward Yoo
See also: List of chess grandmasters Category:American chess players