Alejandro Ramirez (1988-) is a Costa Rican American chess player. In November 2003. FIDE awarded Ramirez the grandmaster title. Ramírez was one of the seconds of Fabiano Caruana during the 2018 World Chess Championship.
US Chess Safe Play: Real-life Examples
When WGM Jennifer Shahade posted “Time’s up.” on X (formerly Twitter) on February 15, 2023, she was the Women’s Program Director for US Chess. Less than a month later, an article in The Wall Street Journal stated, “former U.S. women’s chess champion Jennifer Shahade alleged on social media last month that she had been sexually assaulted by a prominent grandmaster named Alejandro Ramirez.” On April 5, 2024, US Chess published a Safe Play example that had some of the same elements found in allegations against Ramirez. More 🡢
