Aleksei Kulashko

Aleksei Kulashko

Aleksei Kulashko at the Waitakere Trust chess tournament, Auckland 2002.
Personal information
Born	(1972-07-03) 3 July 1972 (age 53) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Chess career
Country	Russia New Zealand
Title	FIDE Master
FIDE   rating	2354 (February 2016)
Peak rating	2400 (July 2000)

Aleksei Kulashko (born 3 July 1972) is a New Zealand chess player holding the title of FIDE Master (FM).

Born in Leningrad, he moved to New Zealand after graduating from university. ^[1]

Kulashko has represented New Zealand in four Chess Olympiads: in Elista 1998, Bled 2002, Baku 2016 and Batumi 2018 playing board 1 in 1998, 2002 and 2016. His best result was in 1998 when he scored 7.5/11, and finished in 9th place. ^{[2] [3]}

Kulashko won the New Zealand Chess Championship in 1996/97, 1997/98, 1999/2000 ^[4] and in 2015/16 (jointly with Michael V. R. Steadman). In 2016 he also became Oceania champion. ^[5] He also won the New Zealand Rapid Chess Championship in 1997/1998. ^[6]

Alexei Kulashko was the joint NZ champion, with Felix Xie, in the 2024 NZ Fischer-Random Chess Championship. ^[7]

He competed in the Oceania Zonal Chess Championship in 1999, 2000, and 2005. ^{[8] [9] [10]}

References

1. "Aleksei Kulashko" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 19 April 2002. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
2. Chess Olympiads: Aleksei Kulashko. Olimpbase.
3. NZCF Representative Honours Board NZCF
4. The New Zealand Championships: A Brief History by Peter Stuart
5. Daulyte, Deimante (15 January 2016). "Gawain Jones is new New Zealand Champion". ChessBase. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
6. New Zealand Rapid Champions NZCF
7. 2024 NZ Fischer-Random Championship NZCF
8. Oceanic Zonal 1999 TWIC 233
9. Oceania Zone 3.2b 2000 TWIC 290
10. Oceania Zonal April 2005 Tournament Report FIDE

External links

• Aleksei Kulashko rating card at FIDE
• Aleksei Kulashko chess games at 365Chess.com
• Aleksei Kulashko player profile and games at Chessgames.com