Alex Yermolinsky

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.

Alex Yermolinsky
Alex Yermolinsky at the 2003 U.S. Championships in Seattle, Washington
CountryUnited States (since 1991)
Soviet Union (until 1991)
Born (1958-04-11) April 11, 1958
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (1992)
FIDE rating2486 (June 2020)
Peak rating2660 (January 1998)
Peak rankingNo. 21 (January 1998)

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.

Personal life

Yermolinsky is married to Camilla Baginskaite, also a chess player. They have two children, a son and a daughter. They met each other at the Chess Olympiad 1996 in Yerevan.[3]

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
  1. "The Week in Chess 355". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  2. Sands, David R. (2012-10-23). "'The Yerminator' enters U.S. Chess Hall of Fame". Washington Times. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  3. "WGM Camilla Baginskaite". United States Chess Federation. Retrieved 2009-07-08.


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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