About Alexey Root
Born 1965. Alexey Root is an American chess player.
Alexey Wilhelmina Root (née Rudolph, born 1965) is an American 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, and has written seven books on the relationship between chess and education.
She is also Research Awards Coordinator at Chessable and writes for SparkChess.com.
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USA chess player
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Alexey Root was born on 24 July 1965.
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