Alexey Kim

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Alexey Kim
Full nameAlexey Eduardovich Kim
Country Russia (until 2006)
South Korea (since 2006)
Born (1986-04-05) April 5, 1986 (age 38)
Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR
Title Grandmaster (2004)
FIDE   rating 2465 (September 2024)
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 Dastan, Hagen Poetsch, Ralf Åkesson, Jonathan Hawkins and Kacper Drozdowski in the 18th Vienna Chess Open. [4]

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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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