Alexey Kim

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Alexey Kim
Personal information
BornAlexey Eduardovich Kim
(1986-04-05) April 5, 1986 (age 39)
Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR
Chess career
Country Russia (until 2006)
South Korea (since 2006)
Title Grandmaster (2004)
FIDE   rating 2465 (December 2025)
Peak rating 2488 (September 2013)

Alexey Eduardovich Kim (born April 5, 1986) is a Soviet-born South Korean chess player. He is the only South Korean to hold the FIDE title of Grandmaster.

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Biography

A third-generation ethnic Korean, [1] Kim was born on April 5, 1986, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in the Soviet Union. [2] He learned chess from his grandfather, Nikolay Vladimirovich Kim, at four years old. When he was eleven, he won the Moscow Junior Championship. [1] Kim became a FIDE master in 2000, an international master in 2001, and a grandmaster in 2004. [2] In 2006, he paid the required fee to FIDE (chess's international governing body) to switch his national federation to South Korea, in keeping with his grandfather's wishes. [1] Kim played on the South Korean team in the 2008 Chess Olympiad. [3] In 2013, he shared first place with Stanislav Novikov, Batuhan Daştan, Hagen Poetsch, Ralf Åkesson, Jonathan Hawkins and Kacper Drozdowski in the 18th Vienna Chess Open. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ethnic Korean Chess Grandmaster Comes Home". The Chosun Ilbo . 2008-11-28. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  2. 1 2 Di Felice, Gino (2017-11-22). Chess International Titleholders, 1950-2016. McFarland. p. 161. ISBN   9781476671321.
  3. ↑ Alexey Kim team record at Olimpbase.org
  4. ↑ "Seven players share first place in Vienna Chess Open". Chessdom. 2013-08-27. Archived from the original on 2018-07-08. Retrieved 2019-02-18.


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