Israeli Chess Championship

David Ben-Gurion at the closing ceremony of the first Israeli Chess Championship, 1951.[a]

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.

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

  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.

References

  1. ^ "Israel Junior Championship Final 2019 June 2019 Israel FIDE Chess Tournament report". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  2. ^ "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
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