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.
[1] Growing up in Israel, Har-Zvi was taught to play chess at the age of 5 by his grandfather.
[1] In 2008, Har-Zvi finished second in the "Ciudad de Dos Hermanas",[2] the largest online chess tournament in the world.
[4] Har-Zvi is a regular expert commentator, host and teacher on the Internet Chess Club.
[8] He lived in Saratoga, New York, with his wife Heather, whom he met online at the Internet Chess Club, and their child.
[11] 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.