Boris Kreiman (born June 7, 1976) is an American
Grandmaster of chess. Kreiman a 3rd-place winner in a
U.S. Chess Championship
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in Seattle is also a winner of the ''Frank P. Samford, Jr. Chess Fellowship''.
Kreiman has retired from chess to help communities through chess programs and education.
Early life and training
Kreiman was born in
Moscow
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,
Russian SFSR
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USSR
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on June 7, 1976. He later moved to the
United States
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at the age of 13 and settled on
Brighton Beach in
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,
New York
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Kreiman began his chess training in Russia, at the age of 5 at the
Russian School of Chess in Moscow. It was at Brighton Beach that Kreiman trained with Grandmaster
Gata Kamsky, a Soviet-born American chess Grandmaster who was once the third highest rated chess player in the world. Later on, Kreiman also trained with
Alex Yermolinsky
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Career
Yermoli ...
, another Soviet-born American Chess Grandmaster.
Chess career
Boris Kreiman has won more than 20 international chess tournaments, played in three
World Junior Championships, and in three
U.S. Championships throughout his chess career. He has been an experienced chess
coach
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for more than a decade.
In both 1993 and 1996 he won the U.S. Junior Championships. In 2002, he won 3rd place in the U.S. Championship in Seattle and has also received the renowned and prestigious "Samford Scholarship". The Samford is given to only the best chess players in the United States and is offered by Chess-in-the-Schools based in New York City.
Kreiman founded the Kreiman Chess Academy in
Los Angeles
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, which is dedicated to incorporating chess into educational systems and to establishing competitive chess programs along the west coast of the U.S.
Instructors at the academy are trained by Kreiman himself. The Kreiman Chess Academy has turned out two National Chess Champions; Joel Banawa and Joaquin “Jake” Banawa in 2005. Both students received $50,000 scholarships to
The University of Texas at Dallas.
UTD Gives Chess Scholarships to Students
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See also
* List of chess grandmasters
References
External links
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Kreiman Chess AcademyPipl Profile of Boris Kreiman
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1976 births
Living people
Russian chess players
Sportspeople from Moscow
Chess grandmasters
Chess coaches
American chess players