Leinier Domínguez

A Cuban-born American grandmaster and five-time Cuban champion. Domínguez won the 2008 World Blitz Championship in Almaty, ahead of Vasyl Ivanchuk and Peter Svidler, and the 2013 Grand Prix event in Thessaloniki against an elite field.

He won individual silver on board one for Cuba at the 2016 Olympiad and worked as Fabiano Caruana’s second for the 2018 World Championship match.

He switched to the U.S. federation in December 2018. Since then he has finished second at the 2019 U.S. Championship and the 2023 Sinquefield Cup, where he came in as a late replacement for Ding Liren.