Israeli Open Chess Championship 2026 LIVE

The Israeli Open Chess Championship 2026 will take place from January 19 to January 27 in Acre, Israel. It is a 9-round Swiss system tournament with a time control of 90 minutes per 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes and 30 seconds per move. For more events from Israel, check out The Asian Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

More than 100 players will participate in the tournament, and the top-seeded among them are GM Ilia Smirin (2564), GM Ido Gorshtein (2554), GM Evgeny Postny (2554), GM Yahli Sokolovsky (2537), GM Victor Mikhalevski (2527), GM Avital Boruchovsky (2521), IM Eytan Rozen (2518), GM Evgeny Zanan (2505), GM Evgeny Alekseev (2504), GM Yair Parkhov (2499), GM Ori Kobo (2482), IM David Gorodetzky (2481), IM Yeshaayahu Tzidkiya (2470), IM Yannay Ben Ari (2463), IM Guy Levin (2462), IM Yuval Yaniv (2462), IM Feliks Tulchynskyi (2414), IM Roy Vagman (2386), GM Yehuda Gruenfeld (2380), IM Marsel Efroimski (2375). Scroll down for the full participants list.

Israeli Open Chess Championship 2026 Participants

No.		Name	Rtg	RtgN	sex
1	GM	Smirin, Ilia	2564	2572
2	GM	Gorshtein, Ido	2554	2596
3	GM	Postny, Evgeny	2554	2588
4	GM	Sokolovsky, Yahli	2537	2548
5	GM	Mikhalevski, Victor	2527	2570
6	GM	Boruchovsky, Avital	2521	2533
7	IM	Rozen, Eytan	2518	2541
8	GM	Zanan, Evgeny	2505	2554
9	GM	Alekseev, Evgeny	2504	2540
10	GM	Parkhov, Yair	2499	2519
11	GM	Kobo, Ori	2482	2467
12	IM	Gorodetzky, David	2481	2486
13	IM	Tzidkiya, Yeshaayahu	2470	2478
14	IM	Ben Ari, Yannay	2463	2480
15	IM	Levin, Guy	2462	2498
16	IM	Yaniv, Yuval	2462	2516
17	IM	Tulchynskyi, Feliks	2414	2486
18	IM	Vagman, Roy	2386	2384
19	GM	Gruenfeld, Yehuda	2380	2393
20	IM	Efroimski, Marsel	2375	2392	w
21	GM	Dvoirys, Semen I.	2367	2385
22	FM	Shilon Rahav, Eliran	2367	2379
23	FM	Sherman, Raem	2354	2392
24		Ezra, Paul Chambers	2343	2224
25	IM	Ben Artzi, Ido	2339	2347
26	FM	Tifferet, Shakked	2322	2344
27	FM	Uritsky, Yonathan	2320	2372
28	FM	Steiner-prozhanski, Giora	2314	2329
29	FM	Vitenberg, Noam Aviv	2307	2369
30		Newman, Ori	2298	2349
31	FM	Zakin, Ilay	2292	2318
32	FM	Noy, Eyal	2250	2294
33	CM	Menahem, Adi	2235	2264
34	WIM	Orian, Noga	2227	2267	w
35		Gov, Guy	2223	2256
36	CM	Sason, Noam	2197	2219
37		Michaeli, Omri	2171	2221
38		Lovin, Boris	2168	2204
39		Azoulay, Yehonatan	2166	2213
40	FM	Solomon, Asif	2159	2226
41	CM	Moskovich, Daniel	2159	2185
42	FM	Kochavi, Dana	2156	2202	w
43		Meirovich, Ilay	2150	2224
44		Gruzman, Ilya	2118	2180
45		Tsirilman, Guy	2113	2183
46	WFM	Tashkinova, Sofiia	2098	2166	w
47		Zuev, Ilya	2088	2153
48		Sabag, Matan	2079	2087
49		Taieb, Ariel	2076	2158
50	FM	Gershkowich, David	2072	2121
51		Triger, Eitan	2065	2080
52		Rinberg, David	2060	2097
53	FM	Zalkind, Konstantin	2027	2078
54		Kinberg, Ofer	2014	2038
55		Feigin, Daniel	2007	1990
56		Pashanov, Stanislav	1995	2019
57		Belkovsky, Guy	1991	2068
58		Dvorzhitsky, Alexander N	1961	1990
59		Ben-shemesh, Doron	1945	2027
60		Zakin, Lior	1944	2039
61		Kluchik, Julia	1942	1979	w
62		Khairova, Evelina	1940	1970	w
63		Cohen, Israel	1937	1980
64		Fusman, Noam	1889	1856
65		Snappir, Eitan	1879	1871
66	WFM	Aleksandrova, Aleksandra	1865	1861	w
67		Chalopoviz, Ilay	1858	1873
68		Levi, Yoel	1842	1889
69		Sapir, Omri	1816	1917
70		Erez, Eitan	1802	1813
71		Cohen, Eyal	1772	1850
72		Gal, Erez	1761	1785
73		Tsabari, Ronen	1741	1773
74		Boulos, Boulos	1731	1646
75		Neeman, Ori	1705	1815
76		Klein, Rafael	1688	1507
77		Fire, Teddy	1673	1824
78		Veksler, Arik	1667	1538
79		Frumin, Rebeka	1607	1552	w
80		Bloch, Yarden	1605	1707	w
81		Khokhlov, Yuriy	1600	1634
82		Kahan, Sami	1597	1508
83		Roichman, Gal	1588	1588
84		Ben Assa, Omri	1573	1698
85		Edri, David	1569	1569
86		Roichman, Rom	1549	1632
87		Noginsky, David	1546	1592
88		Nashashibi, Iliya	1538	1626
89		Slobodnyuk, Pavel	1514	1484
90		Tzur, Ofir	1511	1594
91		Rosen, Ori	1493	1451
92		Feigin, Benjamin	1467	1484
93		Soknik, Daniel	1394	1394
94		Sadekov, Damir	1385	1385
95		Barkai, Razi	1371	1371
96		Golant, Viktor	1300	1300
97		Saushev, Sergey	1300	1300
98		Omar, Mansour	1270	1270
99		Stoler, Eyal	1251	1251
100		Stoler, Michal	1250	1250	w
101		Almog, Negev	0	0
102		Asaad, Alex	0	0
103		Kestelman, Eyal	0	0
104		Pankratova, Galina	0	0	w
105		Ribak, Yonatan	0	0
106		Sela, Einav	0	0