Alexey Root Explained

Country:	United States
Birth Date:	24 July 1965
Woman International Master (1990)
Peakrating:	2080 (January 1990)

Alexey Wilhelmina Root (née Rudolph, born 1965) is a chess player, teacher, and writer, who was the 1989 U.S. Women's Chess Champion. She holds the title of Woman International Master, and received a Ph.D. degree from UCLA.

Root is Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas,^[1] and has written seven books on the relationship between chess and education.

She is also Research Awards Coordinator at Chessable and writes for SparkChess.com.

Bibliography

• Book: Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators. 2006. Libraries Unlimited. 978-1591583585.
• Book: Science, Math, Checkmate: 32 Chess Activities for Inquiry and Problem Solving. 2008. Libraries Unlimited. 978-1591585718.
• Book: Read, Write, Checkmate: Enrich Literacy with Chess Activities. 2009. Libraries Unlimited. 978-1591587545.
• Book: People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with Chess. 2010. Libraries Unlimited. 978-1591588504.
• Book: Living Chess Game, The: Fine Arts Activities for Kids 9-14. 2010. Libraries Unlimited. 978-1598843804.
• Book: Thinking with Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14. 2015. Mongoose Press. 978-1936277360.
• Book: United States Women's Chess Champions, 1937-2020. 2022. McFarland. 978-1476686936.

References

Sources

External links

• Monroi.com Dr. Root's blog

Notes and References

1. Web site: Archived copy . 2009-10-06 . 2010-08-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100826114023/http://www.utdallas.edu/directories/?p=0 . dead .