Seirawan, Yasser
Currently alive, at 48 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Chess Player
1960 - Born in Damascus, Syria on the 24th of March.
1979 - At 19 he won the World Junior Chess Championship.
1980 - International grandmaster.
2001 - Seirawan released a plan to reunite the chess world, which at that time had two world champions: Ruslan Ponomariov had gained the title under the auspices of FIDE, while Vladimir Kramnik had beaten Garry Kasparov to take the Einstein title.
2003 - The Kramnik-Leko match took place the Kasparov-Ponomariov.
2006 - In the July FIDE list, Seirawan had an Elo rating of 2638 making him number 71 in the world, and America's number three.
- He played five games in the July FIDE update. He hadn't played a professional game for about a year up to that point.
2007 - Yasser Seirawan unveiled his enhanced chess game called which he is currently promoting world wide.
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Winning Chess Tactics, revised (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess) by Yasser Seirawan (Paperback - May 1, 2005) This is the second in Seirawan's four volumes, taking the reader from the very basics of chess through appreciation of advanced play. He does a remarkable job of discussing tactics that usually...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Winning Chess Openings (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess) by Yasser Seirawan (Paperback - Oct 1, 2003) Start every game with confidence!The two greatest challenges for beginning chess players are not only to survive the openings phase, but also to choose appropriate attack and defence formations in... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Winning Chess Strategies, revised (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess) by Yasser Seirawan (Paperback - May 1, 2005) This is the third of Seirawan's four-volume series, which takes the reader from chess greenhorn to a player advanced enough to understand grandmaster play. Here, Seirawan shows how to set long-range...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Play Winning Chess by Yasser Seirawan (Paperback - Jun 1, 2003) International grandmaster Yasser Seirawan has a knack for communicating not only the playing of the game, but also an enthusiasm for it. In this first of a four part series, Seirawan talks to the... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Winning Chess Endings (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess) by Yasser Seirawan (Paperback - Oct 1, 2003) Winning Chess Endingsteaches endgame strategies in an exciting new way--by putting the player in the middle of the action with firsthand stories taken directly from famous matches. Pull up a chair... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Winning Chess Combinations (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess) by Yasser Seirawan (Paperback - Jun 1, 2006) Combinations are the central element in chess; they make the game so magical and captivating. The beautiful point of sacrificing a queen, the strongest piece, in order to checkmate with a lowly pawn... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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