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Jesse Kraai (born May 6, 1972) is a chess Grandmaster (GM) living in Baltimore, MD.^{[citation needed]} He reached GM status in 2007.[1] He was the first American-born player to achieve the title since Tal Shaked in 1997.[2]

Jesse Kraai
Jesse Kraai, Saint Louis 2011
Country	United States
Born	(1972-05-06) May 6, 1972 (age 50)
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2401 (July 2022)

He won the 1987 National Junior High School Championship, tied for first in the 1988 National High School Championship, and won the Denker Tournament of High School Champions in 1989 and 1990. In 2007, he won the New Mexico chess state championship for the fifth consecutive year.[3]

Kraai was born in Santa Fe. He received his B.A. from Shimer College in 1994, his M.A. in philosophy from the University of Jena, Germany in 1996, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg in 2001. His dissertation examined the influence of Georg Joachim Rheticus on the development of Copernican theory.[4]

In 2013, he published Lisa: A Chess Novel (ISBN 0976848902). He withdrew from teaching chess for three years to write it.[5]

References

External links

• Official website
• Jesse Kraai player profile and games at Chessgames.com

На других языках

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- [en] Jesse Kraai

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[ru] Краай, Джесси

Джесси Краай (англ. Jesse Kraai; род. 6 мая 1972, Санта-Фе) — американский шахматист, гроссмейстер (2007). Он был первым игроком американского происхождения, получившим титул после Таля Шакеда в 1997 году.

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