Joshua E. Friedel[1] (born December 3, 1986) is an American chess player with the FIDE title of Grandmaster.

[2] He has had notable wins against GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Boris Gulko, Ben Finegold, Timur Gareyev, and Gregory Serper.

[3] In 2001, after having reached the master level, at age 14, Friedel worked with GMs Larry Christiansen, Gregory Kaidanov, and Alex Goldin.

[3] On August 4, 2013, at the age of 26, Friedel tied for first in the 114th United States Open Chess Championship and eventually winning a tiebreak playoff against (then) IM Mackenzie Molner.

In December of the same year, he tied for first (winning on tiebreaks) at the North American Open in Las Vegas with a score of 7/9.