Alex Yermolinsky
| Alex Yermolinsky | |
|---|---|
 Alex Yermolinsky at the 2003 U.S. Chess Championships in Seattle, Washington | |
| Country |
Soviet Union United States |
| Born |
April 11, 1958 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2486 (December 2016) |
Alex Yermolinsky (Russian: Алексей Ермолинский, Aleksey Yermolinskiy; born April 11, 1958 in Leningrad) is an American chess Grandmaster and two-time US champion.
He 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 was equal first with other nine players, but Gregory Serper won the playoff). In 2001 he won the American Continental Championship.
In 2012 Yermolinsky was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame.[1]
Yermolinsky is married to the WGM Camilla Baginskaite. They have two children, a son named Edward and a daughter named Greta.[2] They met each other at the Chess Olympiad 1996 in Yerevan. 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
- ↑ Sands, David R. (2012-10-23). "'The Yerminator' enters U.S. Chess Hall of Fame". Washington Times. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- ↑ "WGM Camilla Baginskaite". The United States Chess Federation. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
External links
- Alex Yermolinsky chess games at 365Chess.com
- Alex Yermolinsky player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- US Chess Federation: Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky
| 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 |