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Alon Greenfeld

Alon Greenfeld is an Israeli chess grandmaster and trainer who won the Israeli championship in 1984 and 2018.

born 1964Israeli chess championships 1984 and 2018Training Vidit Gujarathi and Emil Sutovsky5 Chess Olympiads for Israel

Born: 17 April 1964, New York City
Occupation: chess player

Alon Greenfeld was born in 1964 in New York City

Alon Greenfeld was born on 17 April 1964 in New York City. He trained under Eliyahu Levant. As a youth he won the Israeli under-20 championship in 1978 and again in 1979.

He took silver at the 1980 World Cadet Championship in Le Havre and at the 1982 European Junior Championship in Groningen. He became an International Master in 1983 and a Grandmaster in 1989. He won the Israeli championship in 1984 and played for Israel in 5 Chess Olympiads.

His peak rating of 2610 came in January 1994. In 1993 he won the Komerční banka Cup in Pardubice. He plays in the national league for the Beersheba chess club and has won Israeli titles and cups with the team.

As a trainer he worked with Emil Sutovsky, Marsel Efroimski and young Indian players such as Vidit Gujarathi, whom he has coached since 2004. He built the opening repertoire for the Deep Junior program and played it in exhibition games in 2002 and 2012. In 2018 he won the Israeli championship a second time, in Ma'alot-Tarshiha.