Israeli Chess Championship

The Israeli Chess Championship is a chess event held every year in Israel.

History

From 1951 to 1971, the men's and women's championships were held every two years, eventually becoming an annual event. The 1998 Championship was held 8–24 November in Ramat Aviv. The single-elimination tournament, 32 players in the men's section and 16 in the women's, used an unusual time control of 100 minutes for 30 moves + 30 seconds per move. GM Eran Liss won the men's final over GM Victor Mikhalevski. After tying their 2-game match with one victory apiece, they then tied an active chess playoff with one win and two draws each. In a 5-minute blitz playoff, Liss won 2–0. Irina Yudasina won the women's final over Ella Pitem with one win and one draw.

Winners

#	Year	Men's Champion
1	1936	Moshe Czerniak
2	1937	Yosef Porat
3	1938	Moshe Czerniak
4	1940	Yosef Porat
5	1945	Izak Aloni
6	1951	Menachem Oren
7	1953	Yosef Porat
8	1955	Moshe Czerniak
9	1957	Yosef Porat
10	1959	Yosef Porat
11	1961	Izak Aloni
12	1963	Yosef Porat
13	1965	Izak Aloni
14	1967	Shimon Kagan
15	1969	Shimon Kagan
16	1971	Uzi Geller
17	1974	Vladimir Liberzon
18	1976	Nathan Birnboim
19	1978	Roman Dzindzichashvili
20	1980	Nathan Birnboim
21	1982	Yehuda Gruenfeld
22	1984	Alon Greenfeld
23	1986	Nathan Birnboim
24	1988	Gad Rechlis
25	1990	Yehuda Gruenfeld
26	1992	Ilya Smirin
27	1994	Leonid Yudasin
28	1996	Lev Psakhis
29	1998	Eran Liss
30	2000	Boris Avrukh Alik Gershon
31	2002	Ilya Smirin
32	2004	Sergey Erenburg
33	2006	Maxim Rodshtein
34	2008^[b]	Boris Avrukh
35	2010	Vitali Golod
36	2013	Tamir Nabaty
37	2014	Victor Mikhalevski
38	2016	Tamir Nabaty
39	2018	Alon Greenfeld

#	Year	Women's Champion
1	1955	Ora Nodel Yaron
2	1957	Rivka Lichtenfeld
3	1959	Genia Gevenda
4	1961	Clara Friedman
5	1963	Clara Friedman
6	1965	Clara Friedman
7	1967	Sima Rabinovitz Forman
8	1969	Frida Rabinovitz Schahar
9	1971	Lidia Gal
10	1974	Olga Podrazhanskaya
11	1976	Olga Podrazhanskaya
12	1978	Ljuba Kristol
13	1980	Lena Glaz
14	1982	Ljuba Kristol Olga Podrazhanskaya
15	1984	Ljuba Kristol
16	1986	Shlomit Vardi
17	1988	Ljuba Kristol
18	1990	Ljuba Kristol
19	1992	Masha Klinova
20	1994	Ludmila Tsifanskaya
21	1996	Ludmila Tsifanskaya
22	1998	Irina Yudasina
23	2000	Ela Pitam
24	2002	Irina Botvinnik
25	2004	Bella Igla
26	2006	Bela Atnilov
27	2008^[c]	Olga Vasiliev
28	2010	Masha Klinova
29	2013	Olga Vasiliev
30	2014	Olga Vasiliev
31	2016	Michal Lahav
32	2018	Yuliya Shvayger

#	Year	Junior Champion
1	1951	Raaphi Persitz
2	1954	Giora Peli
3	1958	Yedael Stepak
4	1959	Yehuda Oppenheim
5	1960	Israel Gat
6	1961	Daniel Mor
7	1962	Israel Gelfer
8	1963	Yaacov Bleiman
9	1964	Yaacov Bleiman
10	1965	Amikam Balshan
11	1966	Abraham Neyman
12	1967	Nathan Birnboim
13	1968	Nathan Birnboim On Neyman
14	1969	Yoel Temanlis
15	1970	Arie Lev
16	1971	Chagai Scheinwald
17	1972	Chagai Scheinwald
18	1973	David Bernstein
19	1974	Yehuda Gruenfeld
20	1975	Nir Greenberg
21	1976	Ehud Lahav
22	1977	Michael Pasman
23	1978	Alon Greenfeld
24	1979	Alon Greenfeld
25	1980	Dan Lapan
26	1981	Ran Shabtai
27	1982	Moshe Pyernik
28	1983	Ofer Brook
29	1984	Ronen Lev
30	1985	Ilan Manor
31	1986	Danny Barash
32	1987	Ronen Lev
33	1988	Ilan Manor
34	1989	Eran Liss
35	1990	Dan Zoler
36	1991	Victor Mikhalevski
37	1992	Victor Mikhalevski
38	1993	Eran Liss
39	1994	Michael Oratovsky
40	1995	Alik Vydeslaver
41	1996	Boris Avrukh
42	1997	Dimitri Tyomkin
43	1998	Alexander Rabinovich
44	1999	Michael Roiz
45	2000	Alik Gershon
46	2001	Evgeny Postny
47	2002	Sergey Erenburg
48	2003	Sergey Erenburg
49	2004	Baruch Sternberg
50	2005	Gaby Livshits
51	2006	Maxim Rodshtein
52	2007	Sasha Kaplan
53	2008	Gil Popilsky^[d]
54	2012	Asaf Givon
55	2014	Asaf Givon
56	2015	Nimrod Veinberg
57	2017	Avital Borochovsky
58	2018	Johnatan Bakalchuk
59	2019	Yair Parkhov^[1]
60	2020	Erez Kupervaser^[2]

Notes

^ Right to left: Pinhas Rosen Justice minister and honorary president of Israel Chess Association, David Ben Gurion, Israel Rabinovich-Barav, Dr Yehouda Grunegard
^ Men's and women's competition held together
^ Embedded in the unified men's and women's championship finals (not as a separate competition).
^ U15 champion. The U17 championship was cancelled, due to lack of enough participants.

References

^ "Israel Junior Championship Final 2019 June 2019 Israel FIDE Chess Tournament report". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
^ "Israeli Open Junior Championship 2020 Rounds 1-8 April 2020 Israel FIDE Chess Tournament report". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2020-06-16.

Bibliography

Whyld, Ken (1986), Chess: The Records, Guinness Books, p. 104, ISBN 0-85112-455-0 (results through 1982)
Crowther, Mark (30 November 1998), THE WEEK IN CHESS 212, London Chess Center
Wolsza, Tadeusz (2007), Arcymistrzowie, mistrzowie, amatorzy. Słownik biograficzny szachistów polskich, vol. 5, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, ISBN 83-7181-495-X

[1] Right to left: Pinhas Rosen Justice minister and honorary president of Israel Chess Association, David Ben Gurion, Israel Rabinovich-Barav, Dr Yehouda Grunegard

[2] Men's and women's competition held together

[3] Embedded in the unified men's and women's championship finals (not as a separate competition).

[4] U15 champion. The U17 championship was cancelled, due to lack of enough participants.

[5] "Israel Junior Championship Final 2019 June 2019 Israel FIDE Chess Tournament report". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2020-06-16.

[6] "Israeli Open Junior Championship 2020 Rounds 1-8 April 2020 Israel FIDE Chess Tournament report". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2020-06-16.

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