Uncle Yermo Needs Your Help!

Legendary American Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky, "Yermo", remains hospitalized in Tekirdag, Turkey after undergoing a four-way heart bypass. A second emergency surgery was performed five days later for sternal wound infection and respiratory failure. Compounding his problems, sternal fractures were found during the second surgery. Yermo is being crushed by medical bills which his Medicare is not covering as there is no reciprocal agreement with Turkey.

Yermolinsky is a 2-time United States Champion, member of 4 U.S. Chess Olympiad teams, 4 American World Senior teams and an inductee to the Chess Hall of Fame.

His doctors have told him that it will be at least six-months before he can safely return to the United States. Yermo will require a prolonged hospital stay with antibiotic therapy but that his long-term prognosis following the bypass surgery is excellent.

GM Alex Shabalov and GM Gregory Kaidanov are co-0rganizers.