Alexey Root

Alexey Root is a chess player, teacher and writer. Taught to play the game at age five by her father, Alexey soon joined the local chess club in Lincoln, Nebraska, starting a lifelong love affair that continues to this day.

Alexey, who has a peak USCF rating of 2260, played in ten U.S. Women’s Championships including 1989 which she won. She represented the United States internationally in the 2nd World Girls’ Junior Chess Championship in Mexico City in 1983, as a member of the U.S. Women’s Olympiad team in 1990 and at the 1990 Women’s Interzonal in Kuala Lumpur. 

The author of over half a dozen chess books, most famously the definitive United States Women’s Chess Champions, 1937-2020, Alexey is a frequent contributor to SparkChess and Chess Life Online. She has a Ph.D. in Education from UCLA and is a long-time lecturer at The University of Texas at Dallas. 

Alexey is married to International Master Doug Root.