Robert Shlyakhtenko

In June 2016, he had been the national No. 1 blitz player for his age range for over a year.^[1]

In January 2020, he won the Dreaming King Open, finishing a half-point ahead of runner-up John Daniel Bryant.^[2][3]

He finished in third place in the 2020 US Chess Grand Prix, ahead of grandmasters Alexander Shabalov and Fidel Corrales Jimenez.^[4]

In July 2023, he tied for third place at the Biel Masters Tournament, during which he achieved a draw against grandmaster Liu Yan and a win against grandmaster Luis Ernesto Quesada Pérez.^[5]

In September 2024, he tied for second with grandmaster Oliver Barbosa in the Marshall Chess Club Labor Day Invitational GM A.^[6][7]

Off the chessboard, he is also a pianist and studied piano performance under Saleem Ashkar at Brown University.^[8]