Jesse Kraai
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Jesse Kraai (born 1972) is a chess Grandmaster living in Santa Fe, NM. Kraai reached GM status in 2007; he is the first American-born player to achieve the title in over ten years. In 2007, he won the chess state championship of New Mexico for the fifth consecutive year.[1] He won the Denker Tournament of High School Champions in 1989 and 1990. 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.[2]
Jesse Kraai is a contributor to chesslecture.com.
