Alex Yermolinsky

Alex Yermolinsky
Yermolinsky at the 2003 U.S. Championships in Seattle, Washington
Country	United States (after 1991) Soviet Union (before 1991)
Born	(1958-04-11) April 11, 1958 (age 66) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster (1992)
FIDE rating	2421 (May 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

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.

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