{{Short description|Israeli science writer}} {{Infobox chess player | name = Ofer Comay | image =עפר קומאי במשרדי חברת קרקטל 2023.jpg | caption = | country = Israel | birth_date = {{bya|1957}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | title = | worldchampion = World Chess Solving Champion (1985, 1999) | peakrating = | FideID = |native_name=עופר קומיי|native_name_lang=he}}
'''Ofer Comay''' (Hebrew: עופר קומיי; born 1957) is an Israeli chess problemist and a popular science writer who challenged the Standard Model of particle physics.
==Biography and chess career== At school years Comay won the Israeli Olympiad for Youth in mathematics organized by Weizmann Institute of Science. He graduated from the Tel Aviv University with a master's degree in mathematics. Along with his father, Eliyahu Comay, he founded a software company which specializes in document image understanding.
In 1985 Comay first time won the individual World Chess Solving Championship.<ref>[http://www.wfcc.ch/1985-2012/wcsc85/ 9. WCSC RICCIONE 18.-19.9.1985]</ref> In 1986 he gained the title of International Solving Grandmaster.<ref>[http://www.sci.fi/~stniekat/pccc/sgm.htm Solving grandmasters] {{Archive url|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410214637/http://www.sci.fi/~stniekat/pccc/sgm.htm|date=2019-04-10}}</ref> In 1999 Comay second time won the individual World Chess Solving Championship.<ref>[http://www.wfcc.ch/1999-2012/wcsc99/ 23. World Chess Solving Championship Netanya 26.-27.10.1999]</ref> His hobby is to compose chess problems and mathematical riddles.<ref>[https://nohiggs.wordpress.com/about-the-author/ About the Author: Ofer Comay]</ref>
==Challenging the Standard Model of particle physics== Comay wrote popular science books about particle physics, which were based on the work of his father, Eliyahu Comay, an Israeli physicist.
In 2014 he published the book ''[https://www.amazon.com/Science-Fiction-Phony-Particle-Physics-ebook/dp/B00QZ5Y5WS Science or Fiction?]'' which provides more than 20 phenomena which, according to the book, challenge Quantum Chromodynamics, one of the cornerstones of particle physics.<ref>[https://nohiggs.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/the-most-accurate-theory-in-history-in-any-field/ The most accurate theory in history, in any field. The first chapter from "Science or Fiction?"]</ref>
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==External links== *{{citation | title=Ofer Comay | url=http://pdb.dieschwalbe.de/search.jsp?expression=A='Comay'%20and%20FIRSTNAME='Ofer' }} Problems at the PDB-Server * [http://nohiggs.wordpress.com A blog about particle physics]
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