Aleksandr Lenderman

Aleksandr Lenderman
Alex Lenderman, Toluca 2011
Full name	Александр Лендерман
Country	United States
Born	(1989-09-23) 23 September 1989 (age 27) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2578 (March 2017)
Peak rating	2636 (May 2015)

Aleksandr "Alex" Lenderman (born 23 September 1989) is an American chess grandmaster. He won the 2005 World Under-16 Championship in Belfort with a score of 9/10 (+8 −0 =2), becoming the first American to win a gold medal at the World Youth Chess Championship since Tal Shaked won the World Junior Championship in 1997.

Born in Leningrad, he arrived with his family in Brooklyn when he was four.

Lenderman attended Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn where, from 2004–2007, he was part of the "dream team" winning four straight national high school titles for the school, along with now International Master Salvijus Bercys. He played an important role in the book The Kings of New York, by Gotham Press, 2007.

Lenderman was first in the 2008 USCF Grand Prix, scoring higher than all the grandmasters he competed against by playing and championing in smaller events, including WCL tournaments.

In 2009, he announced after completing his second year at Brooklyn College, he planned to end his studies there and become a professional chess player. He finished first in the 2009 Atlantic Open, in front of several other GMs. He also won the 2009 USCF Grand Prix and was a co-champion of the 2009 U.S. Open. Lenderman earned three Grandmaster norms in quick succession in the summer of 2009: