Alex Yermolinsky (russian: Алексей Ермолинский, translit=Alexey Yermolinskiy; born April 11, 1958) is an American

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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

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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

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three times: in 1993, 1995 and 1996; in 1999 he shared first with nine other players, but

Gregory Serper Gregory Serper (russian: Григорий Юрьевич Серпер, translit=Grigory Yurievich Serper; born September 14, 1969) is a chess grandmaster. He was born in Tashkent, in the former Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union ...

won the playoff. In 2001 he won the American Continental Championship in Cali, Colombia. In 2012 Yermolinsky was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame. He is a regular commentator and presenter on the

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Books

* Yermolinsky, Alex (2000). ''Road to Chess Improvement''.

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. . * Yermolinsky, Alex (2006). ''Chess Explained: The Classical Sicilian''.

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