Alexey Root

Alexey Root

Alexey Wilhelmina Root (nee Rudolph), (born 1965) is a chess player, teacher, and writer, who was the 1989 U.S. Women's Chess Champion. She holds the title of Woman International Master, and received a Ph.D. degree from UCLA.

Root is Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas,[1] and has written three books on the relationship between chess and education.

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  • FIDE rating card for Alexey Root
  • Root, Alexey, "What chess has given us," Academic Exchange Quarterly, Mar 22, 2003, accessible here (Oct 27, 2008).
Preceded by
Anna Akhsharumova
U.S. Women's Chess Champion
1989
Succeeded by
Elena Donaldson



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