Gregory Serper

Gregory Serper ( _ru. Григорий Юрьевич Серпер) (born September 14 1969) is an International Grandmaster of chess.

He was born in Tashkent, in the former Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (present Uzbekistan). He learned to play when he was six years old from his grandfather. In 1985, at age 16, he started studies at Moscow's famous Botvinnik-Kasparov Chess School.

In 1992, as a member of Uzbekistan Chess Delegation, Serper won silver medal in the Chess Olympiad.

In January 1996 he moved with his family to the United States. In 1999, Serper won the World Open Chess Championship, [http://www.samsloan.com/worldo99.htm] and in the same year advanced to the finals of the U.S. Chess Championship by defeating Alex Yermolinsky in semifinals, but losing in finals to the champion Boris Gulko.

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* [http://www.olimpbase.org/players/0oyacy8f.html OlimpBase]
* [http://www.uschess.org/news/bio/serper.php US Chess Federation: Grandmaster Gregory Serper]