The 2012 class for the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis is small but select: Alex Yermolinsky, the St. Petersburg-born grandmaster now living in South Dakota, will become the 48th member of the ...

Alex Yermolinsky will be taking on 25 challengers by himself on Friday afternoon, and he doesn't like the odds -- theirs, not his. Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com Read the E-Edition, ...

Sioux Falls, S.D., is 7,765 miles from Danzhou, Hainan, China, the site of the first Hainan Open. And there you will find two-time US champion and South Dakota’s leading chessplayer Alex Yermolinsky.

Alex Yermolinsky always knew he had it in him to become a chess grandmaster. Growing up in Russia during the Cold War and then moving to the US, Yermolinsky has competed against some of the best chess ...