Boris Alterman

Boris Alterman was born in 1970 in Kharkiv

Boris Alterman was born on May 4, 1970, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He began playing chess at age 7. He moved to Israel in the 1990s.

He earned the International Master title in 1991 and the Grandmaster title in 1992. He won tournaments in Munich, Haifa, Rishon LeZion, Bad Homburg and Beijing. He played for Israel 4 times at the Chess Olympiads and reached the second round of the 1998 world championship.

He worked as a personal assistant to world champion Garry Kasparov and directed the Kasparov Chess Academy from 1999 to 2002. He helped develop the chess program Deep Junior. He wrote the Gambit Guide series on chess openings and gives video lectures online.

With his wife Luba Alterman he founded the company Alterman Chess, which promotes chess in schools and kindergartens and trains gifted children. He became a FIDE Senior Trainer in 2010 and heads the Rishon LeZion chess club. In 2016 he led the club team to second place in the national league.