Gennadij Sagalchik | |
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Country | United States |
Born | Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union | April 22, 1969
Title | Grandmaster (1994) |
FIDE rating | 2434 (October 2024) |
Peak rating | 2550 (January 1997) |
Gennadij Germanovich Sagalchik is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster and coach.
Sagalchik is a former Belarus Junior Champion, and was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1994. [1] In 2008, he tied for second place with Sergei Tiviakov at the IV Torneo Internacional Abierto de Ajedrez in Alajuela, Costa Rica. [2]
Sagalchik has been a chess coach in Long Island since the 2010s. In 2015, four of his students played in the World Youth Chess Championship. [3]
Sagalchik lives in Brooklyn with his wife Olga, who is a Woman FIDE Master. They have two daughters and a son. [4]
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