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Ram Soffer

Ram Soffer is an Israeli chess grandmaster who also holds the grandmaster title in chess problem solving and plays and teaches bridge.

born 1965Chess grandmasterGrandmaster in chess problem solvingTeaching and writing about bridge

Born: 6 September 1965, Ramat Gan
Occupation: chess composer, chess player, bridge player
Education: Tel Aviv University

Ram Soffer was born in 1965 in Ramat Gan

Ram Soffer was born on 6 September 1965 in Ramat Gan. In 1978 he won the Israeli chess championship for children up to age 14. He lives in Rishon LeZion.

FIDE gave him the Grandmaster title in 1994. In 1998 he also became a grandmaster in chess problem solving, the second person after Jonathan Mestel to hold both titles. He won the Israeli problem solving championship in 2018 and won first place in the world 4 times with the Israeli solving team.

He played on the Israeli team that won the 2016 European Senior Team Chess Championship in the 50+ division. He coached Israeli youth teams at world and European championships and was on the judging team of the 2015 European Chess Championship in Jerusalem. Since 2005 he has written about chess for Maariv and the Israel Chess Federation website.

Soffer began playing competitive bridge in 1994 and holds the title of silver grandmaster. He founded a bridge school and writes for the Israeli bridge monthly and for the magazine La'Isha. He also edited 3 bridge books by Moti Gelbard.