GMDavid Brodsky

David Brodsky was born in Mount Kisco, New York, in 2002 and began chess at six. His training included work with grandmaster Farrukh Amonatov. He completed his final international master norm in April 2017. In 2019 he secured his last grandmaster norm at the U.S. Masters, although he still needed to meet the title's rating requirement. That November he shared first with Andrew Tang at the National Chess Congress in Philadelphia. A last-round victory over Jason Liang secured that result. After high school in Westchester County, he studied computer science and mathematics at the University of Texas at Dallas. He also joined the university's chess team. In 2022 he shared first at the Carolinas Classic with Alexander Shabalov, Elshan Moradiabadi and Daniel Naroditsky. He met the remaining title requirement that year and became a grandmaster.