(1972-05-06) May 6, 1972 (age 52) Santa Fe, New Mexico
Title
Grandmaster (2007)
Peak rating
2527 (September 2009)
Jesse Kraai (born May 6, 1972) is a chess Grandmaster (GM) living in Baltimore, MD.[citation needed] He reached GM status in 2007[1] making him the first American-born player to achieve the title since Tal Shaked in 1997.[2]
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]
^Jesse Kraai rating card at FIDE
^Jennifer Shahade (July 2007). "IM Jesse Kraai Joins the Elite". Chess Life.
^New Mexico Chess Organization
^Heidelberg Archives
^"Lisa: A Chess Novel (Excerpt)". Chess Life Online. 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2014-01-04.
JesseKraai (born May 6, 1972) is a chess Grandmaster (GM) living in Baltimore, MD.[citation needed] He reached GM status in 2007 making him the first...
States'. In 2019, Rensch tied for first place in the Denver Open alongside JesseKraai, in a field with many talented grandmasters. Rensch has been offering...
Championships in Belfort. (after Julio Becerra Rivero, together with JesseKraai) in the open tournament in Coamo. In 2009, he achieved further successes...
Valentina Kozlovskaya (Russia, born 1938) Zdenko Kožul (Croatia, born 1966) JesseKraai (US, born 1972) Yair Kraidman (Israel, born 1932) Adolf Kraemer (Germany...
championship. Previous winners include Alexander Fishbein, Ilya Gurevich, JesseKraai, and Abby Marshall. This tournament is typically held during the summer...
August 12 Tong Yuanming, Chinese IM, former national champion – April 21 JesseKraai, U.S. GM, the first American-born player to achieve the title in ten...
scholarship. Subsequent beneficiaries of this scholarship include grandmasters JesseKraai and Noureddine Ziane. The internal governance structure in Waukegan differed...
Archived from the original on July 8, 2012. Retrieved October 2, 2012. "JesseKraai Attains Chess Pinnacle" (PDF). Shimer College Symposium. Spring 2008...
5 points together with fellow GMs JesseKraai and Tejas Bakre eventually settling for runner-up honors behind Kraai. In the 2018 edition held from June...
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