Alexey Kim Explained

Alexey Kim
Full Name:Alexey Eduardovich Kim
Country:Russia (until 2006)
South Korea (since 2006)
Birth Date:5 April 1986
Birth Place:Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR
Grandmaster (2004)
Peakrating:2488 (September 2013)
Fideid:4129776

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.

Biography

A third-generation ethnic Korean,[1] Kim was born on April 5, 1986, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in the Soviet Union. 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 Ã…kesson, Jonathan Hawkins and Kacper Drozdowski in the 18th Vienna Chess Open.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Ethnic Korean Chess Grandmaster Comes Home . 2008-11-28 . . 2018-05-15 . en.
  2. Book: Di Felice, Gino. Chess International Titleholders, 1950-2016 . 2017-11-22 . McFarland . 9781476671321 . 161 . en.
  3. http://www.olimpbase.org/players/95x7vn9b.html Alexey Kim
  4. Web site: Seven players share first place in Vienna Chess Open. 2013-08-27. Chessdom. 2019-02-18. 2018-07-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20180708104658/http://www.chessdom.com/seven-players-share-first-place-in-vienna-chess-open/. dead.