Eugene Perelshteyn (born 1980) is an American

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player and writer. He earned the

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title in 1997, the

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title in 2001, and the Grandmaster title in 2006. Born in

Zhytomyr Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital city, a ...

(then

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), Perelshteyn began playing chess at around seven years old, taught by his father, Mikhail Perelshteyn, a FIDE master and professional chess coach. At age 10, he began playing in his first tournaments. He moved to the United States in 1994. He won the U.S. Junior Closed Championship in 2000 and was awarded the Samford Chess Fellowship by the US Chess Trust in 2001. After taking two years off from school to play chess professionally, Perelshteyn returned to the

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, and graduated in 2004. After graduating, Perelshteyn returned to chess, winning the 2007

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Cup and tying for first in the B group in the 2009 SPICE Cup. Perelshteyn has also placed second in the 2012

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and tied for first in the 2016 Golden State Open. In March 2018, Perelshteyn tied for fourth in the

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, scoring 6½/9 points. He has co-authored two chess books with Lev Alburt and

Roman Dzindzichashvili Roman Yakovlevich Dzindzichashvili ( ka, რომან იაკობის-ძე ჯინჯიხაშვილი; pronounced ''jin-jee-khash-VEE-lee''; born May 5, 1944) is a Soviet-born Israeli-American chess player. He was awarded th ...

: ''Chess Openings for Black, Explained: A Complete Repertoire'' (2009), and ''Chess Openings for White, Explained: Winning with 1.e4'' (2010). He has since converted his books into a website, ChessOpeningsExplained.com, in which he shares his knowledge of the Hyper-Accelerated Sicilian Dragon. In August 2015, Perelshteyn also collaborated with programmer Peter Pashkov to develop the Android applicatio
Chess Genie
which offers tactical exercises to its users. In October 2022, Perelshteyn co-authored ''Evaluate Like a Grandmaster'' with Nate Solon, a book designed to help players quickly evaluate complex positions.

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Eugene Perelshteyn
games at 365Chess.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Perelshteyn, Eugene 1980 births Living people Chess grandmasters American chess players American chess writers American male non-fiction writers Sportspeople from Zhytomyr Jewish chess players Ukrainian emigrants to the United States