- Boris Kreiman
Infobox chess player
playername = Boris Kreiman
birthname = Boris Kreiman
country = US
datebirth = birth date and age|1976|06|07
placebirth =Moscow ,Russia
datedeath =
placedeath =
title = Grandmaster (2004)
womensworldchampion =
rating = 2482
peakrating = 2515 (January 2000 - June 2000)Boris Kreiman,(born
June 07 ,1976 ) an American [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_(chess) Grandmaster of chess] , was born inMoscow ,Russia on June 7, 1976.He later moved to the
United States at the age of 14 and settled onBrighton Beach ,Brooklyn ,New York . TheUnited States government granted Kreiman a permanent residence immediately, due to his status of one of the world’s most talented people.It was on Brighton Beach that Kreiman trained with Grandmaster
Gata Kamsky , a Soviet-born American chess Grandmaster who was once noted for being the third highest rated chess player in the world. Later Kreiman also trained with the greatAlex Yermolinsky , another Soviet-born American Chess Grandmaster.Kreiman began his chess training in Russia, at the young age of 5. His training started at the Russian School of Chess in Moscow. As a child, and even to this day, Kreiman also loved sports and physical fitness. At the age of 6 he began his Running and Sprint Training.
Kreiman is one of the youngest American chess Grandmasters and has become known as the strongest man in the world of
chess . As the strongest man in chess, he was given the nickname ofIronman Boris “Bench Press” Kreiman.Chess Career
Boris Kreiman has won more than 20 international chess tournaments, played in three [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Junior_Chess_Championship World Junior Championships] , and in three [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Chess_Championship U.S. Championships] throughout his chess career. He had been an experienced chess coach for more than a decade.
In both 1993 and 1996 he won the U.S. Junior Championships. In 2002, he won 3rd place in the U.S. Championship in Seattle and has also received the renowned and prestigious "Samford Scholarship". The Samford is given to only the best chess players in the United States and is offered by Chess-in-the-Schools based in New York City.
After achieving success as a chess Grandmaster, he went on to become an entrepreneur by founding "Kreiman Chess" Academy. Based on his extensive experience, Kreiman founded the Kreiman Chess Academy in
Los Angeles , which is dedicated to incorporating chess into educational systems and to establishing competitive chess programs all along the west coast of the U.S.All instructors at the academy are trained by Kreiman himself. As an athlete, he believes that a strong mind comes with a strong body and impresses this way of thinking on all of the instructors and students at the academy.
The Kreiman Chess Academy has turned out two National Chess Champions; Joel Banawa and Joaquin “Jake” Banawa in 2005. Both students received $50,000 scholarships to the
University of Texas .External Links
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_grandmasters List of Chess Grandmasters]
* [http://www.kreimanchess.com Kreiman Chess Academy]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06EFDA1239F931A35757C0A960958260 Boris Kreiman In NY Times]
* [http://pipl.com/directory/people/Boris/Kreiman Pipl Profile of Boris Kreiman]
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