Sunil Weeramantry


Sunil Weeramantry is a Sri Lankan-born American chess player, trainer and chess author known for being the trainer of his stepson Hikaru Nakamura.

Career

Weeramantry became a chess master at the age of 15. He represented Sri Lanka in 1972 at the Chess Olympiad. He won the New York State Chess Championship in 1975.
Weeramantry started his chess training career in 1979 at Hunter College Campus Schools in Upper Manhattan. He served as the chairman of the United States Chess Federation's committee on Chess training. In 2004, he was named the "Chess educator of the year" by University of Texas at Dallas.

Writing

Weeramantry is also a chess author; with Ed Eusebi he co-authored Best Lessons of a Chess Coach by Random House. Great Moves: Learning Chess Through History, is another work he has co-authored.