Alexey Kim
{{Short description|South Korean chess grandmaster (born 1986)}}
{{About|the Soviet-born South Korean chess player|the Russian colonel general|Alexei Kim}}{{Infobox chess biography
| name = Alexey Kim
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| full_name = Alexey Eduardovich Kim
| country = Russia (until 2006)
South Korea (since 2006)
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|04|05}}
| birth_place = Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR
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| title = Grandmaster (2004)
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| peakrating = 2488 (September 2013)
| FideID = 4129776
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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,{{Cite news |url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2008/11/28/2008112861001.html |title=Ethnic Korean Chess Grandmaster Comes Home |date=2008-11-28 |work=The Chosun Ilbo |access-date=2018-05-15 |language=en}} 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. Kim became a FIDE master in 2000, an international master in 2001, and a grandmaster in 2004.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-dBHDwAAQBAJ |title=Chess International Titleholders, 1950-2016 |last=Di Felice|first=Gino|date=2017-11-22 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476671321 |pages=161 |language=en}} 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. Kim played on the South Korean team in the 2008 Chess Olympiad.[http://www.olimpbase.org/players/95x7vn9b.html Alexey Kim] team record at Olimpbase.org 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.chessdom.com/seven-players-share-first-place-in-vienna-chess-open/|title=Seven players share first place in Vienna Chess Open|date=2013-08-27|website=Chessdom|access-date=2019-02-18|archive-date=2018-07-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708104658/http://www.chessdom.com/seven-players-share-first-place-in-vienna-chess-open/|url-status=dead}}
References
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External links
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- [https://www.365chess.com/players/Alexey_Kim Alexey Kim] chess games at 365Chess.com
- {{Chessgames player|76955}}
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Category:Chess Olympiad competitors
Category:Chess players from Tashkent
Category:Russian chess players
Category:South Korean chess players
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