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American chess grandmaster (born 1959)

Born (1959-09-07) September 7, 1959 (age 66)

TitleGrandmaster (1984)

Peakrating2580 (July 1992)

Sergey Kudrin
Personal information
Kudrin at the World Open chess tournament
Born	(1959-09-07) September 7, 1959 (age 66) Novosibirsk, Soviet Union
Chess career

Country	United States
Title	Grandmaster (1984)
Peak rating	2580 (July 1992)
Peak ranking	No. 32 (July 1984)

Sergey Kudrin (born September 7, 1959) is a Soviet-American chess Grandmaster.

He achieved his Grandmaster title in 1984 going on to win chess tournaments at Copenhagen in 1983, and Beer-Sheva in 1984, and Torremolinos in 1985. He played in the 2005 Chess World Cup at Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia seeded 102nd, the 1999 Las Vegas FIDE Chess World Championship seeded 70th, and the 2004 FIDE World Chess Championship held in Tripoli, Libya, where he was seeded 92nd.

In the United States Kudrin won third place in the 2008 Frank K. Berry United States Chess Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2008. He is also third in the 2008 World Chess Live Grand Prix standings.^[1] He has also been a valued member on the United States Chess League in 2007 and 2008. Kudrin won the United States Open Championship in 1984 and 2007.

In the July 2009 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2578.

Kudrin often has encouraged chess activities such as recruiting GM Boris Spassky to join the Western States Open in 2004 and 2005.

Kudrin tied for first place in the 1986 and 1987 U.S. Masters Chess Championships.

One of his former pupils was bandy and floorball player Alexander Hart.^[2]

References

↑ Braunlich, T. (2008) "Living on Tulsa Time". Chess Life, 16-24.
↑ Hart tror pa IFK i vinter, www.mvt.se, 2014-12-04

External links

Sergey Kudrin rating card at FIDE
Sergey Kudrin player profile and games at Chessgames.com
Sergey Kudrin: photo, statistics

v t e American grandmasters
Chess players for the United States with the FIDE title of grandmaster (GM) by title decade
1950–1959	Benko Bisguier Evans Fine Fischer Kashdan Reshevsky Rossolimo
1960–1969	Byrne Kavalek Lombardy
1970–1979	Alburt Biyiasas Christiansen Dzindzichashvili Gulko Palatnik Rogoff Tarjan
1980–1989	Benjamin D. Gurevich Dake De Firmian Denker Dlugy Ehlvest Fedorowicz Goldin Henley Kaidanov Kudrin Mednis Rohde Seirawan Soltis Wilder Zaichik
1990–1999	Akopian Annakov Avrukh Becerra Bruzón Fishbein I. Gurevich Ivanov Kamsky Novikov Onischuk Sagalchik Schwartzman Serper Shabalov Shaked Sher Sherzer Shulman Stripunsky Wolff Yermolinsky
2000–2009	Akobian Aronian Ashley Bhat Caruana Domínguez Erenburg Finegold Friedel Gareyev González Hernández Hess Izoria Jimenez Kaufman Khachiyan Kraai Kreiman Moradi Nakamura Perelshteyn Quesada Ramírez So Świercz Zherebukh Zhou Ziatdinov
2010–2019	Antipov Arnold Brown Burke Chandra Checa Holt Hungaski Krush Lenderman Li A. Liang Molner Naroditsky Oparin Robson Sevian Sevillano Shankland Smith Tang Troff Xiong Yang Zierk
2020–2029	Balakrishnan Bora Brodsky Daggupati Fernandez Ghazarian Guo Hardaway Heimann Hong Jacobson J. Liang Mishra Niemann Sheng Sturt Tiglon Woodward Yoo
See also: List of chess grandmasters Category:American chess players

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