American chess grandmaster (born 1958)
Alex Yermolinsky
Yermolinsky at the 2003 U.S. Championships in Seattle, Washington
Country Soviet Union (until 1991) United States (since 1991) Born (1958-04-11 ) April 11, 1958 (age 66) Leningrad , Russian SFSR , Soviet UnionTitle 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 .
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Chess players for the United States with the
FIDE title of grandmaster (GM) by title decade
1950–1959 1960–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–2029