Career
He took up chess at the age of 13, inspired by his elder brother’s qualification for the Chess Olympiad in Manila in 1992. He became an International Master in 2004. During the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul Solomon earned his final General Motors norm.
Although Solomon has never reached a peak rating of 2500, the usual criteria, along with the General Motors norms, for becoming a grandmaster, he earned the Grandmaster title by winning the African Chess Championship in December 2014, thereby becoming the first grandmaster from South Africa.