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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Seirawan0301_137.jpg/220px-Seirawan0301_137.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="268" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Seirawan0301_137.jpg/330px-Seirawan0301_137.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Seirawan0301_137.jpg/440px-Seirawan0301_137.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1431" data-file-height="1743" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Seirawan at the 2003 United States Chess Championship</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data adr">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1960-03-24</span>) </span>March 24, 1960<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 64)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Damascus" title="Damascus">Damascus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Title</th><td class="infobox-data note"><a href="/wiki/Grandmaster_(chess)" title="Grandmaster (chess)">Grandmaster</a> (1980)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/FIDE" title="FIDE">FIDE</a> <a href="/wiki/Elo_rating_system" title="Elo rating system">rating</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ratings.fide.com/profile/2000032">2620</a> (November 2024)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chess_players_by_peak_FIDE_rating" title="List of chess players by peak FIDE rating">Peak rating</a></th><td class="infobox-data">2658 (November 2011)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Peak ranking</th><td class="infobox-data">No. 10 (July 1990)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Yasser Seirawan</b> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">ياسر سيروان</span>; born March 24, 1960) is a Syrian-born American <a href="/wiki/Chess" title="Chess">chess</a> <a href="/wiki/Grandmaster_(chess)" title="Grandmaster (chess)">grandmaster</a> and four-time <a href="/wiki/United_States_Chess_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Chess Championship">United States champion</a>. He won the <a href="/wiki/World_Junior_Chess_Championship" title="World Junior Chess Championship">World Junior Chess Championship</a> in 1979. Seirawan is also a published chess author and commentator. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yasser_Seirawan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Seirawan was born in <a href="/wiki/Damascus" title="Damascus">Damascus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>. His father was Syrian and his mother an English nurse from <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a>, where he spent some time in his early childhood. When he was seven, his family immigrated to <a href="/wiki/Seattle,_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="Seattle, Washington">Seattle, Washington</a>, where he attended Queen Anne Elementary School, <a href="/wiki/Edmond_S._Meany_Middle_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmond S. Meany Middle School">Meany Middle School</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Garfield_High_School_(Seattle,_Washington)" class="mw-redirect" title="Garfield High School (Seattle, Washington)">Garfield High School</a>. He honed his game at a now-defunct coffeehouse, the <a href="/wiki/Last_Exit_on_Brooklyn" title="Last Exit on Brooklyn">Last Exit on Brooklyn</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> playing against the likes of <a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia">Latvian</a>-born master <a href="/wiki/Viktors_Pupols" title="Viktors Pupols">Viktors Pupols</a> and six-time <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a> State Champion James Harley McCormick. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yasser_Seirawan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Seirawan began playing chess at 12; at 13, he became Washington junior champion. At 19, he won the <a href="/wiki/World_Junior_Chess_Championship" title="World Junior Chess Championship">World Junior Chess Championship</a>. He also won a game against <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Korchnoi" title="Viktor Korchnoi">Viktor Korchnoi</a>, who had two years earlier narrowly lost a match for the world championship. Impressed, Viktor then invited Seirawan to Switzerland, where Korchnoi was training for his <a href="/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1981" title="World Chess Championship 1981">1981 world title match</a> against <a href="/wiki/Anatoly_Karpov" title="Anatoly Karpov">Anatoly Karpov</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Seirawan qualified for the 1985 and 1988-1990 <a href="/wiki/Candidates_Tournament" title="Candidates Tournament">Candidates Tournaments</a>. In the 1985 tournament in Montpellier he scored 7/15 placing joint 10th,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in the <a href="/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1990#1988–90_Candidates_Tournament" title="World Chess Championship 1990">1988–1990 tournament in St John</a>, a knockout tournament, he was knocked out by <a href="/wiki/Jon_Speelman" title="Jon Speelman">Jon Speelman</a> in the preliminary round. </p><p>In 1990, he won a match against <a href="/wiki/Jan_Timman" title="Jan Timman">Jan Timman</a> sponsored by KRO by the score of +3-1=2. </p><p>For 12 years, he was the chief editor of the <i>Inside Chess</i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The magazine was sold to the <a href="/wiki/ChessCafe.com" title="ChessCafe.com">ChessCafe.com</a> website, on which old articles were featured. </p><p>In 1999, Seirawan played a ten-game match against <a href="/wiki/Michael_Adams_(chess_player)" title="Michael Adams (chess player)">Michael Adams</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a>. The match was drawn +2–2=6.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2001, Seirawan released a plan called "Fresh Start" to reunite the chess world, which at that time had two <a href="/wiki/World_Chess_Championship" title="World Chess Championship">world champions</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ruslan_Ponomariov" title="Ruslan Ponomariov">Ruslan Ponomariov</a> had gained the title under the auspices of <a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_Internationale_des_%C3%89checs" class="mw-redirect" title="Fédération Internationale des Échecs">FIDE</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Kramnik" title="Vladimir Kramnik">Vladimir Kramnik</a> had beaten <a href="/wiki/Garry_Kasparov" title="Garry Kasparov">Garry Kasparov</a> to take the Classical title. It called for one match between Ponomariov and Kasparov (the world number one), and another between Kramnik and the winner of the 2002 Einstein tournament in <a href="/wiki/Dortmund" title="Dortmund">Dortmund</a>, who turned out to be <a href="/wiki/P%C3%A9ter_L%C3%A9k%C3%B3" class="mw-redirect" title="Péter Lékó">Péter Lékó</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The winners of these matches would then play each other to become undisputed World Champion. This plan was signed by all parties on May 6, 2002, in the so-called "Prague Agreement". The Kramnik-Leko match took place (the match was drawn, with Kramnik retaining his title); the Kasparov-Ponomariov match was canceled in 2003, and this particular plan became moot when Kasparov retired in 2005. In the end, the <a href="/wiki/FIDE_World_Chess_Championship_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="FIDE World Chess Championship 2006">FIDE World Chess Championship 2006</a> between Kramnik and <a href="/wiki/Veselin_Topalov" title="Veselin Topalov">Veselin Topalov</a> reunited the world championship title. </p><p>Following a series of events, such as Seirawan participating in the Beijing Chess Challenge in September 2003,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> there were reports that he would be retiring as a professional player. In the July 2007 <a href="/wiki/FIDE" title="FIDE">FIDE</a> list, Seirawan had an <a href="/wiki/Elo_rating" class="mw-redirect" title="Elo rating">Elo rating</a> of 2634, placing him in the top 100 chess players in the world, and America's number four, behind <a href="/wiki/Hikaru_Nakamura" title="Hikaru Nakamura">Hikaru Nakamura</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gata_Kamsky" title="Gata Kamsky">Gata Kamsky</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Onischuk" title="Alexander Onischuk">Alexander Onischuk</a>. He played six games in the July 2007 FIDE update.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 2007, Seirawan unveiled a <a href="/wiki/Chess_variant" title="Chess variant">chess variant</a> created in collaboration with Bruce Harper, called <a href="/wiki/Seirawan_chess" class="mw-redirect" title="Seirawan chess">Seirawan chess</a> or SHARPER chess. SHARPER chess introduces two additional pieces, a "hawk" and an "elephant"—a rook/knight and a bishop/knight combination that in other variants are called the <a href="/wiki/Empress_(chess)" title="Empress (chess)">Empress</a> and <a href="/wiki/Princess_(chess)" title="Princess (chess)">Princess</a>, respectively. The initial position is that of standard chess. Whenever the player moves a piece from its starting position, one of the extra pieces in hand may be placed immediately on the square just vacated. Likewise, pawns may <a href="/wiki/Promotion_(chess)" title="Promotion (chess)">promote</a> to a hawk or an elephant in addition to the standard pieces. The first ever event was a 12-board simultaneous exhibition held on March 31, 2007, in <a href="/wiki/Vancouver" title="Vancouver">Vancouver</a>, British Columbia, Canada.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2011, Seirawan returned from hiatus to competitive chess, playing for the U.S. team in the world team championship in China, where he won silver in first alternate. He had wins versus top GMs <a href="/wiki/Judit_Polgar" class="mw-redirect" title="Judit Polgar">Judit Polgar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shakhriyar_Mamedyarov" title="Shakhriyar Mamedyarov">Shakhriyar Mamedyarov</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He only lost one game. </p><p>Seirawan won the 2011 and 2012 Dutch Open Blitz championship.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Seirawan is widely known for his expert commentary in live broadcasts on the Internet during important events. He has been named by the chess historian <a href="/wiki/Edward_Winter_(chess_historian)" title="Edward Winter (chess historian)">Edward Winter</a> as one of the top five Internet broadcasters.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019, he joined the Chessbrahs and provided coverage for the 2019 World Cup. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Books">Books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yasser_Seirawan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Seirawan has written several books. </p><p>The "Winning Chess" series (with co-author <a href="/wiki/International_Master" class="mw-redirect" title="International Master">IM</a> <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Silman" title="Jeremy Silman">Jeremy Silman</a>): </p> <ul><li><i>Play Winning Chess</i> - Introduction to chess and some basic strategies</li> <li><i>Winning Chess Tactics</i> - Introduction to tactics with puzzles</li> <li><i>Winning Chess Strategies</i> - How to use small advantages and use strategies to gain them</li> <li><i>Winning Chess Openings</i> - Brief descriptions of the most popular openings, and opening strategies</li> <li><i>Winning Chess Endings</i> - Introduction to the endgame</li> <li><i>Winning Chess Brilliancies</i> - Notable games analyzed by the author</li> <li><i>Winning Chess Combinations</i> - How to recognize the main combination patterns; somewhat of a follow-up to <i>Winning Chess Tactics</i></li></ul> <p>The "Winning Chess" series was originally published by <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Press" title="Microsoft Press">Microsoft Press</a>; it is now published by <a href="/wiki/Everyman_Chess" title="Everyman Chess">Everyman Chess</a>. </p> <ul><li><i>Five Crowns: Kasparov-Karpov World Chess Championship 1990 New York - Lyon</i> (with Jonathan Tisdall), International chess Enterprises, 1991. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1879479029" title="Special:BookSources/978-1879479029">978-1879479029</a></li> <li><i>Take My Rooks</i> (with Nikolay Minev), International Chess Enterprises, 1991. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1879479012" title="Special:BookSources/978-1879479012">978-1879479012</a></li> <li><i>No Regrets • Fischer–Spassky 1992</i> (with George Stefanovic), International Chess Enterprises, 1992, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-879479-09-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-879479-09-5">1-879479-09-5</a></li> <li><i>Chess on the Edge</i> (with Bruce Harper) - collected games of Grandmaster <a href="/wiki/Duncan_Suttles" title="Duncan Suttles">Duncan Suttles</a>, published by <a href="/wiki/Chess%27n_Math_Association" title="Chess'n Math Association">Chess'n Math Association</a> in March 2008.</li> <li><i>Chess Duels: My Games with the World Champions</i>, <a href="/wiki/Everyman_Chess" title="Everyman Chess">Everyman Chess</a>, 2010, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1857445879" title="Special:BookSources/978-1857445879">978-1857445879</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yasser_Seirawan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Seirawan is married to <a href="/wiki/Woman_FIDE_Master" class="mw-redirect" title="Woman FIDE Master">Woman FIDE Master</a> Yvette Nagel, daughter of Dutch politician <a href="/wiki/Jan_Nagel" title="Jan Nagel">Jan Nagel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yasser_Seirawan&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The chess opening <a href="/wiki/Seirawan_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Seirawan attack">Seirawan attack</a> (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Bg5) is named after him. He is also known for the Seirawan line in the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Indian_Defence" title="King's Indian Defence">King's Indian Defence</a> (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Bd3), where White has the plan of playing Bd3, Nge2, and O-O. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yasser_Seirawan&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNack1981" class="citation magazine cs1">Nack, William (December 21, 1981). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120220171228/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1125097/1/index.htm">"Yasser, That's My Baby"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated">Sports Illustrated</a></i>. p. 3. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 24,</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Snelschaakmarathon.nl&rft.atitle=Hall+of+fame+%28list+of+winners+Dutch+Open+Blitzchess+championship%29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.snelschaakmarathon.nl%2FSSM2011%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D151%26Itemid%3D98&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYasser+Seirawan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWinter" class="citation web cs1">Winter, Edward. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://chesshistory.com/winter/winter127.html#9085._Live_chess_broadcasts_on">"9085. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">October 29,</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Chessdom&rft.atitle=Interview+with+Yasser+Seirawan&rft.date=2011-10-28&rft.aulast=Matnadze&rft.aufirst=Anna&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chessdom.com%2Finterview-with-yasser-seirawan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYasser+Seirawan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yasser_Seirawan&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoberts2002" class="citation news cs1">Roberts, Gregory (January 10, 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/53957_chess10.shtml">"Chess champ Seirawan has all the right moves"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Post-Intelligencer" title="Seattle Post-Intelligencer">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Seattle+Post-Intelligencer&rft.atitle=Chess+champ+Seirawan+has+all+the+right+moves&rft.date=2002-01-10&rft.aulast=Roberts&rft.aufirst=Gregory&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seattlepi.com%2Flocal%2F53957_chess10.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYasser+Seirawan" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFUncredited1982" class="citation news cs1">Uncredited (December 31, 1982). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2ZZUAAAAIBAJ&dq=yasser-seirawan%20last-exit&pg=6499%2C9020014">"Seattle chess player breathes life into musty world sport"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Ellensburg_Daily_Record" class="mw-redirect" title="Ellensburg Daily Record">Ellensburg Daily Record</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Ellensburg+Daily+Record&rft.atitle=Seattle+chess+player+breathes+life+into+musty+world+sport&rft.date=1982-12-31&rft.au=Uncredited&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2Fnewspapers%3Fid%3D2ZZUAAAAIBAJ%26dq%3Dyasser-seirawan%2520last-exit%26pg%3D6499%252C9020014&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYasser+Seirawan" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yasser_Seirawan&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit 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title="Chess.com">Chess.com</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.seirawanchess.com">Seirawan Chess</a> Enhanced Chess Devised by Yasser Seirawan in 2007</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gmsquare.com/interviews/seirawan2.html">Interview with Yasser Seirawan</a> by <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Golubev" title="Mikhail Golubev">Mikhail Golubev</a> for GrandMaster Square</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVWaFpMwtaGiVZ77NhhvGGGzvF7oFSWcA">Lectures by GM Yasser Seirawan at the St. Louis Chess Club</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Browne" title="Walter Browne">Walter Browne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larry_Evans_(chess_grandmaster)" class="mw-redirect" title="Larry Evans (chess grandmaster)">Larry Evans</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Larry_Christiansen" title="Larry Christiansen">Larry Christiansen</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Chess_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Chess Championship">United States Chess Champion</a> </b><br />1981–1983 (with <a href="/wiki/Walter_Browne" title="Walter Browne">Walter Browne</a>) </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Browne" title="Walter Browne">Walter Browne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larry_Christiansen" title="Larry Christiansen">Larry Christiansen</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Roman_Dzindzichashvili" title="Roman Dzindzichashvili">Roman Dzindzichashvili</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Lev_Alburt" title="Lev Alburt">Lev Alburt</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Chess_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Chess Championship">United States Chess Champion</a> </b><br />1986 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Nick_de_Firmian" title="Nick de Firmian">Nick de Firmian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joel_Benjamin" title="Joel Benjamin">Joel Benjamin</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Wilder" title="Michael Wilder">Michael Wilder</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Chess_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Chess Championship">United States Chess Champion</a> </b><br />1989 (with <a href="/wiki/Roman_Dzindzichashvili" title="Roman 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pieces</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dunsany%27s_chess" title="Dunsany's chess">Dunsany's chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Handicap_(chess)" title="Handicap (chess)">Handicap</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unorthodox board</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Balbo%27s_game" title="Balbo's game">Balbo's game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circular_chess" title="Circular chess">Circular chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cylinder_chess" title="Cylinder chess">Cylinder chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Double_chess" title="Double chess">Double chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grid_chess" title="Grid chess">Grid chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hexagonal_chess" title="Hexagonal chess">Hexagonal chess</a> (<a href="/wiki/Cross_chess" title="Cross chess">Cross chess</a>, <a href="/wiki/Masonic_chess" title="Masonic chess">Masonic chess</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Infinite_chess" title="Infinite chess">Infinite chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Millennium_3D_chess" title="Millennium 3D chess">Millennium 3D chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minichess" title="Minichess">Minichess</a> (<a href="/wiki/Los_Alamos_chess" title="Los Alamos chess">Los Alamos chess</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhombic_chess" title="Rhombic chess">Rhombic chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spherical_chess" title="Spherical chess">Spherical chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess" title="Three-dimensional chess">Three-dimensional chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triangular_chess" title="Triangular chess">Triangular chess</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unorthodox<br />rules with<br />traditional<br />pieces</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Standard<br />8×8 board</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andernach_chess" title="Andernach chess">Andernach chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atomic_chess" title="Atomic chess">Atomic chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beirut_chess" title="Beirut chess">Beirut chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Checkless_chess" title="Checkless chess">Checkless chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chessplus" title="Chessplus">Chessplus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circe_chess" title="Circe chess">Circe chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crazyhouse" title="Crazyhouse">Crazyhouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cubic_chess" title="Cubic chess">Cubic chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dynamo_chess" title="Dynamo chess">Dynamo chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extinction_chess" title="Extinction chess">Extinction chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hostage_chess" title="Hostage chess">Hostage chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knight_relay_chess" title="Knight relay chess">Knight relay chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legan_chess" title="Legan chess">Legan chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Losing_chess" title="Losing chess">Losing chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madrasi_chess" title="Madrasi chess">Madrasi chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monochromatic_chess" title="Monochromatic chess">Monochromatic chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrol_chess" title="Patrol chess">Patrol chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PlunderChess" title="PlunderChess">PlunderChess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portal_chess" title="Portal chess">Portal chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_chess" title="Progressive chess">Progressive chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Three-check_chess" title="Three-check chess">Three-check chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_chess_variants#Way_of_the_Knight" title="List of chess variants">Way of the Knight</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Multimove variants</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Avalanche_chess" title="Avalanche chess">Avalanche chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kung-Fu_Chess" title="Kung-Fu Chess">Kung-Fu Chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marseillais_chess" title="Marseillais chess">Marseillais chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monster_chess" title="Monster chess">Monster chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_chess" title="Progressive chess">Progressive chess</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Elements of chance</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dark_chess" title="Dark chess">Dark chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dice_chess" title="Dice chess">Dice chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knightmare_Chess" title="Knightmare Chess">Knightmare Chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kriegspiel_(chess)" title="Kriegspiel (chess)">Kriegspiel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penultima" title="Penultima">Penultima</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unorthodox rules on<br />an unorthodox board</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_chess" title="Alice chess">Alice chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apocalypse_(chess_variant)" title="Apocalypse (chess variant)">Apocalypse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chad_(chess_variant)" title="Chad (chess variant)">Chad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chessence" title="Chessence">Chessence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congo_(chess_variant)" title="Congo (chess variant)">Congo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diplomat_chess" title="Diplomat chess">Diplomat chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragonfly_(chess_variant)" title="Dragonfly (chess variant)">Dragonfly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeson_Mor" title="Jeson Mor">Jeson Mor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parallel_worlds_chess" title="Parallel worlds chess">Parallel worlds chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rollerball_(chess_variant)" title="Rollerball (chess variant)">Rollerball</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/5D_Chess_with_Multiverse_Time_Travel" title="5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel">5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unorthodox<br />rules using<br />non-traditional<br />pieces</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_chess_variants#Musketeer_chess" title="List of chess variants">Musketeer chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pocket_mutation_chess" title="Pocket mutation chess">Pocket mutation chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheskers" title="Cheskers">Cheskers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Compound pieces</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Almost_chess" title="Almost chess">Almost chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capablanca_chess" title="Capablanca chess">Capablanca chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capablanca_chess#Postdating_Capablanca_chess" title="Capablanca chess">Capablanca random chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chancellor_chess" title="Chancellor chess">Chancellor chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Chess#Embassy_chess" title="Grand Chess">Embassy chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Chess" title="Grand Chess">Grand Chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janus_Chess" title="Janus Chess">Janus Chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maharajah_and_the_Sepoys" title="Maharajah and the Sepoys">Maharajah and the Sepoys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modern_chess" title="Modern chess">Modern chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capablanca_chess#Seirawan_chess" title="Capablanca chess">Seirawan chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tutti-frutti_chess" title="Tutti-frutti chess">Tutti-frutti chess</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unorthodox<br />boards and pieces</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chesquerque" title="Chesquerque">Chesquerque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chess_on_a_really_big_board" title="Chess on a really big board">Chess on a really big board</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Courier_chess#Modern_rules" title="Courier chess">Courier-Spiel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragonchess" title="Dragonchess">Dragonchess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gess" title="Gess">Gess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omega_Chess" title="Omega Chess">Omega Chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stratomic" title="Stratomic">Stratomic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triangular_chess_(game)" title="Triangular chess (game)">Dekle's triangular chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_A.D._(chess_variant)" title="2000 A.D. (chess variant)">2000 A.D.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wildebeest_chess" title="Wildebeest chess">Wildebeest chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolf_chess" title="Wolf chess">Wolf chess</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_chess_variants#Variants_for_more_than_two_people" title="List of chess variants">Multiplayer</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bosworth_(game)" title="Bosworth (game)">Bosworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bughouse_chess" title="Bughouse chess">Bughouse chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Business_chess" title="Business chess">Business chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Djambi" title="Djambi">Djambi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchess_(chess_variant)" title="Duchess (chess variant)">Duchess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enochian_chess" title="Enochian chess">Enochian chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forchess" title="Forchess">Forchess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortress_chess" title="Fortress chess">Fortress chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_Fronts" title="Four Fronts">Four Fronts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four-player_chess" title="Four-player chess">Four-player chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mak-yek#Gala" title="Mak-yek">Gala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hand_and_brain" title="Hand and brain">Hand and brain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quatrochess" title="Quatrochess">Quatrochess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Three-man_chess" title="Three-man chess">Three-man chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Three-player_chess" title="Three-player chess">Three-player chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tri-chess" title="Tri-chess">Tri-chess</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Inspired games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arimaa" title="Arimaa">Arimaa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jetan" title="Jetan">Jetan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martian_chess" title="Martian chess">Martian chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navia_Dratp" title="Navia Dratp">Navia Dratp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Duke_(board_game)" title="The Duke (board game)">The Duke</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Chess-related<br />games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chadarangam" title="Chadarangam">Chadarangam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaturaji" title="Chaturaji">Chaturaji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaturanga" title="Chaturanga">Chaturanga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Courier_chess" title="Courier chess">Courier chess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grant_Acedrex" title="Grant Acedrex">Grant Acedrex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shatranj" title="Shatranj">Shatranj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Short_assize" title="Short assize">Short assize</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamerlane_chess" title="Tamerlane chess">Tamerlane chess</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Regional</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Janggi" title="Janggi">Janggi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Janggi_variants" title="List of Janggi variants">variants</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makruk" title="Makruk">Makruk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Senterej" title="Senterej">Senterej</a></li> <li><a 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Kingdoms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xiangqi_variant" class="mw-redirect" title="Xiangqi variant">Other variants</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Software</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ChessV" title="ChessV">ChessV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairy-Max" class="mw-redirect" title="Fairy-Max">Fairy-Max</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/XBoard" title="XBoard">XBoard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zillions_of_Games" title="Zillions of Games">Zillions of Games</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Correspondence_chess" title="Correspondence chess">Correspondence chess</a></li> <li><a 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0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pal_Benko" title="Pal Benko">Benko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Bisguier" title="Arthur Bisguier">Bisguier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Evans_(chess_player)" title="Larry Evans (chess player)">Evans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reuben_Fine" title="Reuben Fine">Fine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Fischer" title="Bobby Fischer">Fischer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Kashdan" title="Isaac Kashdan">Kashdan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Reshevsky" title="Samuel Reshevsky">Reshevsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Rossolimo" title="Nicolas Rossolimo">Rossolimo</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1960–1969</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Byrne_(chess_player)" title="Robert Byrne (chess player)">Byrne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lubomir_Kavalek" title="Lubomir Kavalek">Kavalek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Lombardy" title="William Lombardy">Lombardy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1970–1979</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lev_Alburt" title="Lev Alburt">Alburt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Biyiasas" title="Peter Biyiasas">Biyiasas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Christiansen" title="Larry Christiansen">Christiansen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Dzindzichashvili" title="Roman Dzindzichashvili">Dzindzichashvili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Gulko" title="Boris Gulko">Gulko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Palatnik" title="Sam Palatnik">Palatnik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Rogoff" title="Kenneth Rogoff">Rogoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Tarjan" title="James Tarjan">Tarjan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1980–1989</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joel_Benjamin" title="Joel Benjamin">Benjamin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Gurevich" title="Dmitry Gurevich">D. Gurevich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Dake" title="Arthur Dake">Dake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nick_de_Firmian" title="Nick de Firmian">De Firmian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Denker" title="Arnold Denker">Denker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maxim_Dlugy" title="Maxim Dlugy">Dlugy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaan_Ehlvest" title="Jaan Ehlvest">Ehlvest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Fedorowicz" title="John Fedorowicz">Fedorowicz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Goldin" title="Alexander Goldin">Goldin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ron_Henley_(chess_player)" title="Ron Henley (chess player)">Henley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregory_Kaidanov" title="Gregory Kaidanov">Kaidanov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergey_Kudrin" title="Sergey Kudrin">Kudrin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmar_Mednis" title="Edmar Mednis">Mednis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Rohde_(chess_player)" title="Michael Rohde (chess player)">Rohde</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Seirawan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Soltis" title="Andrew Soltis">Soltis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Wilder" title="Michael Wilder">Wilder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gennadi_Zaichik" title="Gennadi Zaichik">Zaichik</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990–1999</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Akopian" title="Vladimir Akopian">Akopian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Babakuli_Annakov" title="Babakuli Annakov">Annakov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julio_Becerra_Rivero" title="Julio Becerra Rivero">Becerra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A1zaro_Bruz%C3%B3n" title="Lázaro Bruzón">Bruzón</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Fishbein" title="Alexander Fishbein">Fishbein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilya_Gurevich" title="Ilya Gurevich">I. Gurevich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Ivanov_(chess_player)" title="Alexander Ivanov (chess player)">Ivanov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gata_Kamsky" title="Gata Kamsky">Kamsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igor_Novikov_(chess_player)" title="Igor Novikov (chess player)">Novikov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Onischuk" title="Alexander Onischuk">Onischuk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gennadij_Sagalchik" title="Gennadij Sagalchik">Sagalchik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Schwartzman" title="Gabriel Schwartzman">Schwartzman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregory_Serper" title="Gregory Serper">Serper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Shabalov" title="Alexander Shabalov">Shabalov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tal_Shaked" title="Tal Shaked">Shaked</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miron_Sher" title="Miron Sher">Sher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Sherzer" title="Alex Sherzer">Sherzer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yury_Shulman" title="Yury Shulman">Shulman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Stripunsky" title="Alexander Stripunsky">Stripunsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Wolff" title="Patrick Wolff">Wolff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Yermolinsky" title="Alex Yermolinsky">Yermolinsky</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000–2009</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Varuzhan_Akobian" title="Varuzhan Akobian">Akobian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levon_Aronian" title="Levon Aronian">Aronian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Ashley" title="Maurice Ashley">Ashley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinay_Bhat" title="Vinay Bhat">Bhat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fabiano_Caruana" title="Fabiano Caruana">Caruana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leinier_Dom%C3%ADnguez" title="Leinier Domínguez">Domínguez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergey_Erenburg" title="Sergey Erenburg">Erenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Finegold" title="Ben Finegold">Finegold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joshua_Friedel" title="Joshua Friedel">Friedel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timur_Gareyev" title="Timur Gareyev">Gareyev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renier_Gonz%C3%A1lez" title="Renier González">González</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holden_Hern%C3%A1ndez_Carmenate" title="Holden Hernández Carmenate">Hernández</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hess_(chess_player)" title="Robert Hess (chess player)">Hess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zviad_Izoria" title="Zviad Izoria">Izoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fidel_Corrales_Jimenez" title="Fidel Corrales Jimenez">Jimenez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Kaufman" title="Larry Kaufman">Kaufman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melikset_Khachiyan" title="Melikset Khachiyan">Khachiyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesse_Kraai" title="Jesse Kraai">Kraai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Kreiman" title="Boris Kreiman">Kreiman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elshan_Moradi" title="Elshan Moradi">Moradi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hikaru_Nakamura" title="Hikaru Nakamura">Nakamura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_Perelshteyn" title="Eugene Perelshteyn">Perelshteyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuniesky_Quesada" title="Yuniesky Quesada">Quesada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alejandro_Ram%C3%ADrez_(chess_player)" title="Alejandro Ramírez (chess player)">Ramírez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wesley_So" title="Wesley So">So</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dariusz_%C5%9Awiercz" title="Dariusz Świercz">Świercz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yaroslav_Zherebukh" title="Yaroslav Zherebukh">Zherebukh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raset_Ziatdinov" title="Raset Ziatdinov">Ziatdinov</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010–2019</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Antipov" title="Mikhail Antipov">Antipov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Tyler_Arnold" title="Marc Tyler Arnold">Arnold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Brown_(chess_player)" title="Michael Brown (chess player)">Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_M._Burke" title="John M. Burke">Burke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akshat_Chandra" title="Akshat Chandra">Chandra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Checa" title="Nicolas Checa">Checa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conrad_Holt" title="Conrad Holt">Holt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hungaski" title="Robert Hungaski">Hungaski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irina_Krush" title="Irina Krush">Krush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Lenderman" title="Aleksandr Lenderman">Lenderman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruifeng_Li" title="Ruifeng Li">Li</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Awonder_Liang" title="Awonder Liang">Liang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mackenzie_Molner" title="Mackenzie Molner">Molner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Naroditsky" title="Daniel Naroditsky">Naroditsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grigoriy_Oparin" title="Grigoriy Oparin">Oparin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Robson" title="Ray Robson">Robson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Sevian" title="Samuel Sevian">Sevian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enrico_Sevillano" title="Enrico Sevillano">Sevillano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Shankland" title="Sam Shankland">Shankland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bryan_Smith_(chess_player)" title="Bryan Smith (chess player)">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Tang" title="Andrew Tang">Tang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kayden_Troff" title="Kayden Troff">Troff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffery_Xiong" title="Jeffery Xiong">Xiong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darwin_Yang" title="Darwin Yang">Yang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Zierk" title="Steven Zierk">Zierk</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020–2029</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Praveen_Balakrishnan" title="Praveen Balakrishnan">Balakrishnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Brodsky" title="David Brodsky">Brodsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balaji_Daggupati" title="Balaji Daggupati">Daggupati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Fernandez_(American_chess_player)" title="Daniel Fernandez (American chess player)">Fernandez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Guo" title="Arthur Guo">Guo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Hong" title="Andrew Hong">Hong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brandon_Jacobson" title="Brandon Jacobson">Jacobson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abhimanyu_Mishra" title="Abhimanyu Mishra">Mishra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Niemann" title="Hans Niemann">Niemann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joshua_Sheng" title="Joshua Sheng">Sheng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raven_Sturt" title="Raven Sturt">Sturt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bryce_Tiglon" title="Bryce Tiglon">Tiglon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andy_Woodward_(chess_player)" title="Andy Woodward (chess player)">Woodward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Yoo_(chess_player)" title="Christopher Yoo (chess player)">Yoo</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li>See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_chess_grandmasters" title="List of chess grandmasters">List of chess grandmasters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:American_chess_players" title="Category:American chess players">Category:American chess players</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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