Aleksei Kulashko

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{{Short description|New Zealand chess player (born 1972)}}

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{{Use New Zealand English|date=January 2024}}

{{Infobox chess player

|image=Aleksei Kulashko 2002.jpg|

|name=Aleksei Kulashko

|caption=Aleksei Kulashko at the Waitakere Trust chess tournament, Auckland 2002.

|country=Russia
New Zealand

|birth_date= {{Birth date and age|1972|7|3|df=y}}

|birth_place= Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

|title=FIDE Master

|rating=2354 (February 2016)

|peakrating=2400 (July 2000)

|worldchampion =

|FideID=4300599

}}

Aleksei Kulashko (born 3 July 1972) is a New Zealand chess player holding the title of FIDE Master (FM).

Born in Leningrad, he moved to New Zealand after graduating from university.{{cite web|title=Aleksei Kulashko|url=http://www.geocities.com/zelandia21/Sport/sport.htm|accessdate=21 February 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20020419101534/http://www.geocities.com/zelandia21/Sport/sport.htm|archivedate=2002-04-19|language=Russian}}

Kulashko has represented New Zealand in four Chess Olympiads: in Elista 1998, Bled 2002, Baku 2016 and Batumi 2018 playing board 1 in 1998, 2002 and 2016. His best result was in 1998 when he scored 7.5/11, and finished in 9th place.[http://www.olimpbase.org/players/sm6m80wh.html Chess Olympiads: Aleksei Kulashko]. Olimpbase.[https://newzealandchess.co.nz/national-representatives/ NZCF Representative Honours Board] NZCF

Kulashko won the New Zealand Chess Championship in 1996/97, 1997/98, 1999/2000[http://www.poisonpawn.co.nz/chess/a-history-of-new-zealand-chess-championships/ The New Zealand Championships: A Brief History] by Peter Stuart and in 2015/16 (jointly with Michael V. R. Steadman). In 2016 he also became Oceania champion.{{cite web|last1=Daulyte|first1=Deimante|authorlink1=Deimante Daulyte|title=Gawain Jones is new New Zealand Champion|url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/gawain-jones-is-new-new-zealand-champion|publisher=ChessBase|accessdate=22 February 2016|date=2016-01-15}} He also won the New Zealand Rapid Chess Championship in 1997/1998.[https://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/trophies-rapid.html New Zealand Rapid Champions] NZCF

Alexei Kulashko was the joint NZ champion, with Felix Xie, in the 2024 NZ Fischer-Random Chess Championship.[https://newzealandchess.co.nz/2024/10/2024-nz-fischer-random-championship/ 2024 NZ Fischer-Random Championship] NZCF

He competed in the Oceania Zonal Chess Championship in 1999, 2000, and 2005.

[https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic233.html#12 Oceanic Zonal 1999] TWIC 233

[https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic290.html#7 Oceania Zone 3.2b 2000] TWIC 290

[https://ratings.fide.com/report.phtml?event=30203 Oceania Zonal April 2005 Tournament Report] FIDE