Alex Yermolinsky

Alex Yermolinsky, 2011
Association	Soviet Union (until 1990) United States (since 1991)
Born	April 11, 1958 Leningrad
title	International Master (1990) Grand Master (1992)
Current  Elo rating	2486 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2660 (January 1998)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alex Yermolinsky (originally Alexei Jermolinski , Russian Алексей Владиславович Ермолинский , scientific transliteration: Aleksej Jermolinskij ; born April 11, 1958 in Leningrad ) is an American chess master with roots in the Soviet Union .

Life

Alex Yermolinsky during the 2003 US Championship in Seattle, Washington

Alex Yermolinsky learned chess when he was 8 years old. Belonging to Garry Kasparov's generation , he attended the Soviet chess school in the former USSR and was one of the top ten youth players in the USSR as a teenager. At the age of 19 he won the Soviet league title and between 1981 and 1988 concentrated on coaching activities with Alexander Chalifman and Irina Levitina , among others . He broke off his studies and worked as a factory worker. Although he was able to raise his level of play significantly, he never managed to qualify for the USSR championship. In 1989 he emigrated from the collapsing Soviet Union. Yermolinsky first went to Italy , where he celebrated many successes and won almost every tournament in which he took part: among others in Caorle 1989, Forlì 1989, San Benedetto del Tronto 1989 and Arco 1989.

In 1990 he relocated to the United States and soon received US citizenship. He first worked in New Jersey in a pharmaceutical company and played mostly American weekend tournaments. In 1991 he finished second at the National Chess Congress in Philadelphia behind Boris Gulko, and in the same year he was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE . In 1992, the year in which he became grandmaster , he represented his new home for the first time at the Chess Olympiad in Manila .

In 1993 he started his professional career. He won in Philadelphia in 1992 and 1993, and in Columbia and Bethesda in 1993 . In the same year he won the US Championship in Long Beach for the first time (shared with Alexander Shabalov ). In 1994 he continued his winning streak: Asheville , Reno (Texas) and North Bay . In 1995 tournaments followed again in Asheville, Woburn (Massachusetts) , Philadelphia, Concord (California) (US Open) and Kings Island . In 1996 he won in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and the Groningen Open and won the US Championship in Parsippany for the second time . 1997 successes followed in Kissimmee (US Open) and Washington, DC 1998 Asheville, Allentown , Woburn and Philadelphia, 1999 in Newburgh . 2000 in Ledyards and in Saint Paul (Minnesota) (US Open). In 2001 Yermolinsky won the first ever American Continental Championship in Cali , in 2002 in Las Vegas (US Open), in 2003 in Sioux Falls , San Francisco , San Diego and Reno, and again in San Francisco in 2005.

National team

Yermolinsky took part in the Chess Olympiads in 1992 , 1994 , 1996 , 1998 and 2000 for the US team . In 1996 he reached third place with the team and the third best rating of all participants in the individual evaluation as well as the second best result on the second board, in 1998 he finished second with the team.

He also took part in the team world championships in 1993 and 1997. He won with the team in 1993 and came second in 1997.

societies

Yermolinski won the European Club Cup in 1986 with CSKA Moscow . In the 1990s, two more participations in the European Club Cup followed, but Yermolinski failed both in 1997 with Elitzur Petach Tikwa and in 1999 with ŠK Montenegrobanka Podgorica in the preliminary round.

family

Yermolinski was married to the Lithuanian chess player Camilla Baginskaite since 1997 . The two have a son and a daughter and met at the 1996 Chess Olympiad in Yerevan .

Works in German

• The Road to Improvement in Chess , Gambit Publications Ltd, London 2002, ISBN 1-901983-77-3 .

Web links

Commons : Alex Yermolinsky  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Alex Yermolinsky on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ E-mail interview with Chess Horizons, a recently revived Massachusetts magazine ( Memento from February 2, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ E-mail interview with Chess Horizons, a recently revived Massachusetts magazine ( Memento from February 2, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Chessmetrics Player Profile April 13, 2006
4. ↑ Alex Yermolinski's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Alex Yermolinski's results at the World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Alex Yermolinski's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)