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Full name
  
aleksei Ermolinskii

Role
  
Chess Player

Name
  
Alex Yermolinsky


Title
  
Grandmaster

Country
  
United States

FIDE rating
  
2527

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Born
  
April 11, 1958 (age 65) Leningrad, Soviet Union (
1958-04-11
)

Books
  
Chess Explained the Classical Sicilian, The Road to Chess Improvement

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Alex Yermolinsky (Russian: Алексей Ермолинский, Aleksey Yermolinskiy; born April 11, 1958 in Leningrad) is an American chess Grandmaster and two-time US champion.

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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.

In 2017, World Champion Magnus Carlsen shared that when he was young, a book that inspired him and one that he enjoyed was authored by Yermolinsky.

Yermolinsky is married to the WGM Camilla Baginskaite. They have two children, a son named Edward and a daughter named Greta. They met each other at the Chess Olympiad 1996 in Yerevan. He is a regular commentator and presenter on the Internet Chess Club.

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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

    Alex Yermolinsky Wikipedia