Alexey Kuzmin was born in 1963 in Moscow, Russia. He was the champion of the Central Chess Club of the USSR in 1985 and the champion of Moscow in 1986. Due to, in accordance to the rules of the Chess federation of the USSR he got the right to take part in two international tournaments. Having won round-robin tournament in Managua 1987, he became the International Master. Later Kuzmin became the price-winner of the tournament in Biel 1991 and Ostend 1991, where he got his first two GM’s norms. After 1992, Kuzmin rarely took part in tournaments because of his permanent job with the Qatar National team. He became GM in 1995. Alexey Kuzmin was the winner of a number of international competitions. Between them one can mention Panchevo1989, Tehran 1991 and the open-tournaments: Doha 1992, Andorra 1998, Benasque 1999, Oberwart 2002. His highest rating 2598 was reached in the year 2000. For this period he entered in top-100 of the world rating list. Since 2004 Alexey Kuzmin has ended his chess-player practice. Kuzmin has been working as a professional coach more than 30 years. He had been second of the 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov during the years of his struggle against Garry Kasparov (1987-1991). Since 1992 Kuzmin has been successfully working with the Qatar National team. In 2004, Alexey Kuzmin got the "FIDE Senior Trainer" title with the lifelong license for his cumulative success in coach activity. In the period since 2006 until 2015, Alexey Kuzmin had been working as standing second of GM Alexander Morozevich, the candidate to the World Champion title. In the period since 2012 until 2016, Kuzmin had been leading the author’s column “Kuzmin’s Harvest” in “Yearbook NIC”. Since the year 2008 Alexey Kuzmin has been leading the author’s columns “The actual theory with Alexey Kuzmin” in the monthly Russian magazine “64 – Chess Observer” . He has been the permanent author in “ChessBase Magazine” since 2008. This is his third book for Thinkers Publishing in his series 'Together with'