Alexey Kim

This article is about the Soviet-born South Korean chess player. For the Russian colonel general, see Alexei Kim.
Alexey Kim
Full nameAlexey Eduardovich Kim
CountryRussia (until 2006)
South Korea (since 2006)
Born (1986-04-05) April 5, 1986 (age 38)
Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR
TitleGrandmaster (2004)
FIDE rating2465 (December 2024)
Peak rating2488 (September 2013)

Alexey Eduardovich Kim (born April 5, 1986) is a Soviet-born South Korean chess player. He is the only South Korean to hold the FIDE title of Grandmaster.

Biography

A third-generation ethnic Korean,[1] Kim was born on April 5, 1986, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in the Soviet Union.[2] He learned chess from his grandfather, Nikolay Vladimirovich Kim, at four years old. When he was eleven, he won the Moscow Junior Championship.[1] Kim became a FIDE master in 2000, an international master in 2001, and a grandmaster in 2004.[2] In 2006, he paid the required fee to FIDE (chess's international governing body) to switch his national federation to South Korea, in keeping with his grandfather's wishes.[1] Kim played on the South Korean team in the 2008 Chess Olympiad.[3] In 2013, he shared first place with Stanislav Novikov, Batuhan Dastan, Hagen Poetsch, Ralf Åkesson, Jonathan Hawkins and Kacper Drozdowski in the 18th Vienna Chess Open.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Ethnic Korean Chess Grandmaster Comes Home". The Chosun Ilbo. 2008-11-28. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  2. ^ a b Di Felice, Gino (2017-11-22). Chess International Titleholders, 1950-2016. McFarland. p. 161. ISBN 9781476671321.
  3. ^ Alexey Kim team record at Olimpbase.org
  4. ^ "Seven players share first place in Vienna Chess Open". Chessdom. 2013-08-27. Archived from the original on 2018-07-08. Retrieved 2019-02-18.


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