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| Jan-11-14 | | MarkFinan: Well to say this guy nearly hit the 2700 mark and has beaten Kasparov, this game of his is puzzling. The first 12-13 moves are all book, the next are easy enough to work out in 5 mins, the engine has him +1.50 up and he lost! In a middle game! And I find it highly unlikely having gone through the game he lost on time. Strange.. Yermolinsky vs G Zaichik, 1993 |
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| Apr-07-14 | | Chessinfinite: Nice job on the ICC commentary by GM Alex. Y.
Too bad Anand does not agree with him on most occasions and Yermolinksy is made to be a fool :) - like this time on Candidates 2014. Nice try Sweere, hiding your feelings about an old legend !.. Maybe next time it would help to show some respect to Anand's chances :) *just kidding*.. enjoy watching your shows.. |
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| Apr-07-14 | | RedShield: < could anyone describe yermolinsky's style of playing to me?> Grinder. |
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Jun-23-14
 | | WannaBe: <Biographers>!!
GM Yermo moved to South Dakota a number of years ago, (3 or 4)... Guess he got tired of the nice weather in Cali. He was inducted into US Chess Hall of Fame in 2012.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/topi... |
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| May-23-15 | | TheFocus: <You can talk a lot about chess being an intellectual contest, but it's a sport with all its physical and mental demands. Otherwise, why do you think these days 20-year-old men are generally better in chess than 40-year-olds? Is this the intellect?> - Alex Yermolinsky. |
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Feb-21-16
 | | offramp: Known to his friends as The Yerm or The Big Yerm or El Yermo or The Yermmeister or The Big Yermowsky or The Yermovitch or The Great Yermino or Yerm the Sherm or The Lair of the White Yerm or The Yerminator or Yermorama or The Great Yermheimer or The Yermster or Arnold Yermenegger or El Grand Yermbino or The Yermatollah but never simply as Alex. |
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| Apr-11-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Alex Yermolinsky. |
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| Jun-26-17 | | The Boomerang: Rubbish player. |
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Jun-26-17
 | | keypusher: <the boomerang > <rubbish player> So what's 10 grades below rubbish? Because that's what we are, I guess. |
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Jun-26-17
| | WannaBe: 3 years later, biography still have not yet been updated. (See my post from 2014). If the editor(s) do not wish to update the state of residency (South Dakota), please add the Hall of Fame info. Please. Ugh!! |
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Jun-26-17
 | | Fusilli: There, <WB>, I used my very rarely exercised editor powers. :) I added the titles of his two books, the name of his program on ICC, and removed the bit about working as a chemist for a company in California, assuming he quit that when he moved to SD. Or does he still do that from there? Do you know? After close consideration, I decided that adding that he is a <rubbish player>, as <The Boomerang> informed us, was not necessary. |
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Feb-06-19
 | | Check It Out: If you guys are ten grades below rubbish, I hate to consider my grade. |
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| Feb-06-19 | | JimNorCal: Thanks, <Fusilli> Alex has a wonderful persona, very proud to have him as a transplanted American :) :) |
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| Apr-11-19 | | Ironmanth: Happy birthday, Yermo! Have always appreciated your book, Road to Chess Improvement. Be well, sir. |
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Apr-11-19
 | | eternaloptimist: Happy birthday to the 2-time US Chess Champ, the Yerminator! I really enjoy watching his series “Every Russian Schoolboy Knows” on ICC! In his latest episode for this, he is covering games of GM Artemiev, who definitely has tons of potential. He is in the top 15 in the world now. |
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| Sep-06-19 | | Granny O Doul: "...in a story of mine, one of the characters who comes and goes is called Yarmolinksy because the name struck me--it's a strange word, no?"--Jorge Luis Borges. Granted, he was Yarmo and not Yermo, but there's not such a difference, is there? |
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Sep-06-19
 | | perfidious: Remember reading Summers' biography of J Edgar Hoover, in which an official at Department of Justice called Adam Yarmolinsky is mentioned. |
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Apr-11-20
| | eternaloptimist: Happy 62nd birthday to the Yerminator!! I’m still enjoying his video series called “Every Russian Schoolboy Knows” on ICC. Although it’s much more advanced than the title of his series would suggest. |
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Mar-24-21
| | perfidious: Excerpt from The Road To Chess Improvement:
<....The truth is, a chess-player's main objective is to find good moves, and the last thing he should worry about is attaching them to his (or, worse, someone else's) theoretical beliefs. In retrospect it's nice to attribute your success to superior 'understanding' or 'class', but it doesn't relieve chess-players from sweating it out on every move....> Words to live by, even in this computer age of ours. Signed, luddite life 1200 player |
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| May-01-23 | | greed and death: Got the chance to meet (but not play) Yermo at the Paul Salem Memorial Open in Sioux Falls a week ago, where he rounded out a field with GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez and some of our local talent from South Dakota and a few strong Minnesotans. The grandmasters predictably finished ahead of the pack, although Yermo ended up placing 2nd thanks to requesting a 1/2-point bye in one of the evening rounds. |
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Jul-20-23
 | | FSR: What is it with Alexanders and chess? Just look at the winners of the World Open from 1995 to 2003: 1995, Alex Yermolinsky
1996, Yermolinsky and Alexander Goldin
1997, Alexander Shabalov
1998, Goldin
1999, Yermolinsky, Shabalov, Alexander Fishbein, and 7 non-Alexanders 2000, Goldin, Alexander Ivanov, and 6 non-Alexanders 2001, Goldin, Ivanov, and Alexander Onischuk and 4 non-Alexanders 2002, Onischuk, Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, and 7 non-Alexanders 2003, Onischuk, Shabalov, Wojtkiewicz, Goldin, and 6 non-Alexanders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World... That's <four consecutive years> with <only> Alexanders winning, and <nine consecutive years> where one or more Alexanders won or tied for first. And we're talking <seven> different Alexanders: Yermolinsky, Goldin, Shabalov, Fishbein, Ivanov, Onischuk, and Wojtkiewicz. (I played two of them: A Ivanov vs F Rhine, 1998 and, more successfully, F Rhine vs Yermolinsky, 2022.) Of course the greatest Alexander of all was Alekhine, the only player to die while still world champion. Grischuk, Beliavsky, and Morozevich are also no slouches. |
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| Jul-20-23 | | Retireborn: <FSR> Yermolinsky's name is Alexey, not Alexander. Pedantic point? Maybe. As I recall Alexander Alekhine had a brother called Alexey, so in Russia at least they are considered distinct names. |
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Jul-20-23
| | FSR: <Retireborn> I didn't realize that. |
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| Jul-20-23 | | Retireborn: <FSR> Alexeys (various spellings) aren't so common in chess; Shirov and Dreev are the only other ones that come to mind. My list of Alexanders would include Hugh Alexander (laughs) My own surname is a spelling variant of Alexander. It's amazing how popular the name is, and all because of a military man who died 300 years before Christ. |
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May-08-25
 | | MissScarlett: <Legendary American Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky, "Yermo", remains hospitalized in Tekirdag, Turkey after undergoing a four-way heart bypass. A second emergency surgery was performed five days later for sternal wound infection and respiratory failure. Compounding his problems, sternal fractures were found during the second surgery. Yermo is being crushed by medical bills which his Medicare is not covering as there is no reciprocal agreement with Turkey.> https://www.gofundme.com/f/uncle-ye... |
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