Ronen Har-Zvi

Ronen Har-Zvi (; born 13 October 1976) is an Israeli chess player and writer. Har-Zvi won the under-16 title at the World Youth Chess Champion in 1992. He has held the title of Grandmaster of chess since 1995.

Biography Growing up in Israel, Har-Zvi was taught to play chess at the age of 5 by his grandfather. the largest online chess tournament in the world. Har-Zvi lost 3.5-0.5 in the final to the untitled Jorge Sammour-Hasbun.

Har-Zvi is a regular expert commentator, host and teacher on the Internet Chess Club. He also operates an account, "Indiana-Jones", with a peak rating of 3215 for blitz chess and 2947 for bullet chess. He is a columnist for CHESS magazine.

Aside from chess, Har-Zvi works as a stock trader. He lived in Saratoga, New York, with his wife Heather, whom he met online at the Internet Chess Club, and their child. In 2010, Har-Zvi became head chess coach at the University of Texas at Brownsville, and moved with his family to Brownsville, Texas. He replaced Grandmaster Gilberto Hernández Guerrero, who had resigned from that position for personal reasons. After more than two years of coaching the University of Texas Brownsville team, Har-Zvi left for the Greater Boston area to pursue other chess-related endeavors, and in 2013 he moved back to Israel.

Notable games

Vladimir Kramnik - Ronen Har-Zvi, Oakham 1992.