Tal Baron

Tal Baron (Hebrew: טל בר און‎; born August 7, 1992, in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.

At the time, Baron was the youngest Grandmaster in Israeli history, a title he retains as of 2023.

In August 2016, Baron was selected to represent Israel on the Israeli National Chess Olympiad team in Baku, Azerbaijan.

In April 2017, Baron confessed to using a chess computer to cheat, as a technical matter, in the final round of an online tournament on Chess.com.

[5] In 2019, he won 2nd- 3rd place in the Netanya International Chess Championship along with Alexander Moiseenko.