Gennadij Sagalchik
Belrusian-American chess grandmaster (born 1969)
Gennadij Sagalchik | |
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Country | United States |
Born | (1969-04-22) April 22, 1969 (age 55) Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union |
Title | Grandmaster (1994) |
FIDE rating | 2434 (September 2024) |
Peak rating | 2550 (January 1997) |
Gennadij Germanovich Sagalchik is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster and coach.
Chess career
Sagalchik is a former Belarus Junior Champion, and was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1994.[1] In 2008, he tied for second place with Sergei Tiviakov at the IV Torneo Internacional Abierto de Ajedrez in Alajuela, Costa Rica.[2]
Sagalchik has been a chess coach in Long Island since the 2010s. In 2015, four of his students played in the World Youth Chess Championship.[3]
Personal life
Sagalchik lives in Brooklyn with his wife Olga, who is a Woman FIDE Master. They have two daughters and a son.[4]
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American grandmasters
Chess players for the United States with the FIDE title of grandmaster (GM) by title decade
- Benko
- Bisguier
- Evans
- Fine
- Fischer
- Kashdan
- Reshevsky
- Rossolimo
- Byrne
- Kavalek
- Lombardy
- Akopian
- Annakov
- Becerra
- Bruzón
- Fishbein
- I. Gurevich
- Ivanov
- Kamsky
- Novikov
- Onischuk
- Sagalchik
- Schwartzman
- Serper
- Shabalov
- Shaked
- Sher
- Sherzer
- Shulman
- Stripunsky
- Wolff
- Yermolinsky
- See also: List of chess grandmasters
- Category:American chess players