Aleksei Kulashko

Aleksei Kulashko

Aleksei Kulashko at the Waitakere Trust chess tournament, Auckland 2002.
Country Russia
New Zealand
Born (1972-07-03) 3 July 1972
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title FIDE Master
FIDE rating 2354 (February 2016)
Peak rating 2400 (July 2000)

Aleksei Kulashko (born 3 July 1972) is a New Zealand chess player holding the title of FIDE Master (FM).

Born in Leningrad, he moved to New Zealand after graduating from university.[1]

Kulashko has represented New Zealand in two Chess Olympiads: in Elista 1998 and Bled 2002, playing board 1 on both occasions. His best result was in 1998 when he scored 7.5/11, and finished in 9th place.[2]

Kulashko won the New Zealand Chess Championship in 1996/97, 1997/98, 1999/2000[3] and in 2015/16 (jointly with Michael V. R. Steadman). In 2016 he also became Oceania champion.[4] He also won the New Zealand Rapid Chess Championship in 1997/1998.

He competed in the Oceania Zonal Chess Championship in 1999, 2000, and 2005.

References

  1. "Aleksei Kulashko" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2002-04-19. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  2. Chess Olympiads: Aleksei Kulashko. Olimpbase.
  3. The New Zealand Championships: A Brief History by Peter Stuart
  4. Daulyte, Deimante (2016-01-15). "Gawain Jones is new New Zealand Champion". ChessBase. Retrieved 22 February 2016.

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