Alexey Kim (chess player)

Alexey Kim
Full name Alexey Eduardovich Kim
Country Russia
South Korea
Born (1986-04-05) April 5, 1986
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, USSR
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2463 (October 2018) 2463
Peak rating 2488 (September 2013)

Alexey Eduardovich Kim (born April 5, 1986) is a Soviet-born South Korean chess grandmaster.

Biography

A third-generation ethnic Korean,[1] Kim was born on April 5, 1986 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in the USSR.[2] He learned chess from his grandfather, Nikolay Vladimirovich Kim, who taught the game to Alexey when he was four. When he was eleven, he won the Moscow Junior Championship.[1] He became an FIDE Master in 2000, an International Master in 2001, and a grandmaster in 2004.[2] In 2006, he paid the required fee to the World Chess Federation to change his federation to Korea, in keeping with his grandfather's wishes. He represented Korea at the Hi Seoul Korea Open in 2008.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ethnic Korean Chess Grandmaster Comes Home". The Chosun Ilbo. 2008-11-28. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  2. 1 2 Felice, Gino Di (2017-11-22). Chess International Titleholders, 1950-2016. McFarland. p. 161. ISBN 9781476671321.
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