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Ronen Har-Zvi

Ronen Har-Zvi is an Israeli chess grandmaster and writer who won the under-16 world youth title in 1992.

born 19761992 world under-16 chess titleChess grandmaster since 1995Internet Chess Club commentary

Born: 13 October 1976, Ramat Gan
Occupation: chess player

Ronen Har-Zvi was born in 1976 in Ramat Gan

Ronen Har-Zvi was born on 13 October 1976 in Ramat Gan. His grandfather taught him chess at the age of 5. He began training at 10 at the Bikurei HaIttim center in Tel Aviv, and at 16 he moved to coach Alexander Huzman.

He placed sixth at the 1990 world under-14 youth championship and third in the under-16 event in 1991. In 1992 he won the world under-16 title. He became a grandmaster in 1995 and placed fourth at the 1998 world under-26 championship.

Alongside chess, he worked as a stock trader, first at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. In 2003 he moved to the United States and kept working in that field. He became a commentator, host and teacher on the Internet Chess Club and a columnist for CHESS magazine.

In 2008 he finished second in the Ciudad de Dos Hermanas online tournament. In 2010 he became head chess coach at the University of Texas at Brownsville. He later moved to the Boston area and returned to Israel in 2013.