$13,000 Prize Fund | In cooperation with four Israeli Chess Clubs: Ashdod • Etude Ramat Gan •
Rishon LeZion • Kfar Saba • and the Israeli Chess Federation
Eligibility: FIDE 2300+ (Dec/Jan/Feb lists). Few spots for 2150–2300 from organizing clubs.
Rounds 1–5: Kfar Saba | Rounds 6–9: Ashdod
Registration: EliteChess.Israel@gmail.comELITE CHESS OPEN ISRAEL 2026 | Organizer(s) | Amiram Kaplan, Marsel Efroimski, Adi Lahav, Dan Drori, Moshe Slav, Ido Gorshtein |
| Federation | Israel ( ISR ) |
| Tournament director | Amiram Kaplan |
| Chief Arbiter | Amiram Kaplan |
| Time control (Standard) | 90min/40moves+30min/end+30sec increment per move starting from move 1 |
| Number of rounds | 9 |
| Tournament type | Swiss-System |
| Rating calculation | Rating national, Rating international |
| FIDE-Event-ID | 458296 |
| Date | 2026/03/08 to 2026/03/17 |
| Rating-Ø / Average age | 2350 / 22 |
| Pairing program | Swiss-Manager from Heinz Herzog, Swiss-Manager tournamentfile |
Last update 04.02.2026 21:35:43, Creator/Last Upload: Israel Chess Federation (Licence 8)
| Links | FaceBook, Instagram, הזמנה לתחרות בעברית, Invitation - English Version, Link with tournament calendar |
| Parameters | No tournament details, Link with tournament calendar |
| Lists | Starting rank, Alphabetical list, Statistics, Playing schedule |
| Excel and Print | Export to Excel (.xlsx), Export to PDF-File, QR-Codes |
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Starting rank
| No. | | Name | FideID | FED | RtgI |
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| 1 | GM | Sokolovsky, Yahli | 2820242 | ISR | 2567 |
| 2 | GM | Gorshtein, Ido | 2815532 | ISR | 2546 |
| 3 | IM | Chasin, Nico | 30908477 | USA | 2520 |
| 4 | GM | Boruchovsky, Avital | 2800055 | ISR | 2518 |
| 5 | GM | Alekseev, Evgeny | 4138147 | ISR | 2517 |
| 6 | GM | Zanan, Evgeny | 24101940 | ISR | 2496 |
| 7 | IM | Tzidkiya, Yeshaayahu | 2824493 | ISR | 2485 |
| 8 | GM | Kobo, Ori | 2812320 | ISR | 2474 |
| 9 | IM | Yaniv, Yuval | 2823900 | ISR | 2467 |
| 10 | IM | Ben Ari, Yannay | 2815222 | ISR | 2467 |
| 11 | IM | Aizenberg, Benny | 2821125 | ISR | 2454 |
| 12 | IM | Tulchynskyi, Feliks | 34127895 | ISR | 2425 |
| 13 | FM | Sherman, Raem | 2822288 | ISR | 2388 |
| 14 | FM | Iliaguev, Nisim | 2817276 | ISR | 2377 |
| 15 | IM | Vagman, Roy | 2828995 | ISR | 2374 |
| 16 | GM | Dvoirys, Semen I. | 4100379 | RUS | 2367 |
| 17 | FM | Shilon Rahav, Eliran | 2844958 | ISR | 2364 |
| 18 | IM | Shchekachikhin, Maksim | 24177830 | FID | 2356 |
| 19 | FM | Priansh, Das | 45029946 | IND | 2343 |
| 20 | FM | Uritsky, Yonathan | 2825651 | ISR | 2333 |
| 21 | FM | Zakin, Ilay | 2848279 | ISR | 2324 |
| 22 | FM | Vitenberg, Noam Aviv | 1532138 | NOR | 2304 |
| 23 | | Azoulay, Yehonatan | 2839415 | ISR | 2290 |
| 24 | | Birka, Elia | 2856190 | ISR | 2281 |
| 25 | FM | Dinesh, Rajan m | 35060600 | IND | 2266 |
| 26 | FM | Sriansh, Das | 45030081 | IND | 2223 |
| 27 | CM | Gurevich, Neria | 2857049 | ISR | 2222 |
| 28 | WIM | Orian, Noga | 2836475 | ISR | 2220 |
| 29 | CM | Shefer, Uri | 2843951 | ISR | 2212 |
| 30 | | Ribstein, Orel | 2826534 | ISR | 2203 |
| 31 | FM | Kochavi, Dana | 2837137 | ISR | 2202 |
| 32 | | Michaeli, Omri | 2845911 | ISR | 2201 |
| 33 | WGM | Chernyak, Viktoria | 24165956 | ISR | 2198 |
| 34 | CM | Sason, Noam | 371282346 | ISR | 2161 |
| 35 | WFM | Tashkinova, Sofiia | 14188309 | ISR | 2111 |
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