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 | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Alexey Eduardovich Kim | country = Russia (until 2006)<br>South Korea (since 2006) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|04|05}} | birth_place = Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR | death_date = | death_place = | title = Grandmaster (2004) | rating = | 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,<ref name=chosun>{{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}}</ref> Kim was born on April 5, 1986, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in the Soviet Union.<ref name=book/> He learned chess from his grandfather, Nikolay Vladimirovich Kim, at four years old. When he was eleven, he won the Moscow Junior Championship.<ref name=chosun/> Kim became a FIDE master in 2000, an international master in 2001, and a grandmaster in 2004.<ref name=book>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name=chosun/> Kim played on the South Korean team in the 2008 Chess Olympiad.<ref>[http://www.olimpbase.org/players/95x7vn9b.html Alexey Kim] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416013053/http://www.olimpbase.org/players/95x7vn9b.html |date=2018-04-16 }} team record at Olimpbase.org</ref> In 2013, he shared first place with Stanislav Novikov, Batuhan Daştan, Hagen Poetsch, Ralf Åkesson, Jonathan Hawkins and Kacper Drozdowski in the 18th Vienna Chess Open.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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==External links== *{{FIDE}} *[https://www.365chess.com/players/Alexey_Kim Alexey Kim] chess games at 365Chess.com *{{Chessgames player|76955}}

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