# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/miron-sher
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:45:29.588Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/miron-sher"
name: "Miron Sher"
slug: "miron-sher"
description: "Miron Naumovich Sher was a Soviet-born American chess player, who was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 1992. Towards the end of the Soviet era, he began winning the open sections at international tournaments. In 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved, Sher became a Russian citizen. In 1997, Sher, his wife, Woman Grandmaster (WGM) Alla Grinfeld (ru), and their son, Mikhail, who then was 14, emigrated to America and settled in Brooklyn. Sher went on to become a distinguished scholastic chess coach and clinician in New York and was instrumental in developing several internationally strong players, notably Fabiano Caruana, many times number two in the world, and Robert Hess, who at age 15, while attending Stuyvesant High School, became an international master and at 16, a grandmaster. Before immigrating, Sher had also coached a number of students around Europe, including Peter Heine Nielsen."
tagline: "Soviet-American chess player"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1952-06-29"
deathDate: "2020-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.86
  momentum:             12.1875
  historical:           6.540461333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Шер Мирон Наумович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miron_Sher"
    title: "Miron Sher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miron_Sher"
    title: "Miron Sher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%A9%D7%A8"
    title: "מירון שר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miron_Szer"
    title: "Miron Szer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Шер, Мирон Наумович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miron_Sher"
    title: "Miron Sher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4523015"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump