Alon Mindlin

Alon Mindlin (Hebrew: אלון מינדלין) (born 21 December 1996) is an International chess master , Israeli youth champion and entrepreneur in the field of chess.

Mindlin was born in Kfar Saba, studied at Ort Shapira High School. Learned to play chess at the age of 5 by his grandfather Nathan Blumkin. Currently lives in Tel Aviv.

Achievements as a player

As of November 2024, Mindlin ranked among the 90 best players on Chess.com, including a victory over Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura

• International chess master from 2016
• National League player in the Kfar Saba team, and was a part of many achievements including winning the 2nd and 3rd places in the league and took part in the European Club Championships several times, winning the State Cup in 2016, and a large number of wins in the National Youth Team Championships.

• 2004- 3rd place in the Israeli National Championship up to the age of 8
• 2005- Vice-National Champion up to the age of 9
• 2006- Vice-National Champion under the age of 10
• 2007- Vice-National Champion up to the age of 11
• 2008- Israeli National champion up to the age of 13
• 2011- Vice-National Champion under the age of 16, Winning the 2011 age 18 teams championship with 5.5/6
• 2012 Winning the 2012 age 18 teams championship with 5.0/6
• 2013- Vice-champion of the country up to the age of 18, Winning the 2013 age 18 teams championship with 6.5/7
• In December 2013, represented Israel at the World Youth Championship in Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi as part of a limited delegation that included outstanding youth players that made history: for the first time Israel was represented in a chess competition in an Arab country
• 2014 Winning the 2014 age 18 teams championship with 6.0/7
• 2015 Finished in 2nd place in the First Saturday Budapest 2015 December chess tournament Budapest, Hungary
• 2016- National champion under the age of 20, Winning the 2016 Israeli Cup with 4.0/5
• 2017- Bronze medal in the Grandmasters competition in the Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem
• 2020 Third place in the Israeli league in 2020
• 2022- Silver medal in the Blitz games of the Maccabiah competition in Jerusalem

Achievements as an entrepreneur

• Head of delegation and coach of the youngest national youth team ever to the World Chess Championship (2018) at only 21 years old
• Served as the director of training at the chess club in Kfar Saba upon his release from the army
• Entrepreneur and founder of TechMate - an innovative venture in chess, in which he implemented chess in hundreds of organizations in Israel and around the world as part of chess courses, and lectures,in the Israeli high-tech chess community. As part of the activity, he collaborated with leading unicorns from Israel and the world: Earnix, Playtika, Gong, Fireblocks, and others.
• Mindlin is the initiator and organizer of The Tech Gambit - the first hi-tech team championship of its kind in Israel, which he has been organizing for the past 3 years, when in the year 2024 fifty five companies took part and the event received a lot of coverage.
• During the Israel–Hamas war he founded together with a number of top Israeli chess players including: Nitzan Steinberg, Avital Boruchovsky, Ori Kobo, Johnathan Bakalchuk, Ido Ben-Artzi a project called Chess Together which was used to connect thousands of Israelis and Jewish communities through the game of chess.
• In 2023, in cooperation between TechMate and the cyber company Orca Security, an event called Hackmate was organized—the chess championship of cyber and cloud companies, which included 18 of the largest teams in Israel and the world and ended with Cisco's victory.
• During the year 2023, together with the fintech unicorn Earnix, Mindlin organized a group chess championship for Israeli fintech companies that ended with the victory of the Payoneer company and included 11 leading companies in the field. In July 2023 Mindlin collaborated with the Nova measuring instruments company that hosted a unique team championship that included 7 leading companies in the science park in Rehovot.