Steven Zierk

{{short description|American chess grandmaster (born 1993)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}}

{{Infobox chess player

| name = Steven Zierk

| image = Steven Zierk 2010.jpg

| caption = Zierk in 2010

| country = United States

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1993|8|27}}

| birth_place = Mountain View, California

| death_date =

| death_place =

| title = Grandmaster (2018)

| peakrating = 2517 (September 2019)

| FideID = 2034255

}}

Steven Zierk ({{IPAc-en|z|ɜːr|k}} {{Respell|ZERK}};{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-A0CPIYyEI|title=Opposite-Side Castling Attacks | Grandmaster's Choice - GM Steven Zierk|work=YouTube|date=March 18, 2021|accessdate=17 January 2024}} born August 27, 1993) is an American chess Grandmaster. He is best known for being the 2010 World Under 18 Chess Champion.{{cite web

| url=http://reports.chessdom.com/news-2010/world-youth-chess-championships

| title=World Youth Chess Championships 2010 Concluded

| publisher=ChessDom.com

| accessdate=2011-02-05

| archive-date=2010-11-02

| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101102225026/http://reports.chessdom.com/news-2010/world-youth-chess-championships

| url-status=dead

}} He finished with 9.5/11, one point ahead of second-place finisher Samvel Ter-Sahakyan.{{cite web

| url=http://www.zierkchess.com/

| title=Zierk Chess

| publisher=Steven Zierk

| accessdate=2011-02-05

| archive-date=2011-03-03

| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303202826/http://www.zierkchess.com/

| url-status=dead

}} In 2015, Steven graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a brother at the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.

In June 2018, Zierk earned his final GM norm by earning first place in the Charlotte Chess Center's Summer 2018 GM Norm Invitational held in Charlotte, North Carolina with an undefeated score of 6.5/9.{{Cite web|url=http://chessstream.com/Invitational/Summer-2018-GM-IM-Norm-Invitational/TournamentPairings.aspx|title = CCCSA GM/IM Norm Invitational - Holiday 2021 GM/IM Norm Invitational Chess Tournament}}

In 2019, Zierk tied for first place at the U.S. Masters Chess Championship.