Israel Open Chess Championship 2024 – All information

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The Israel Open Chess Championship 2024 is taking place from 21-29 January in Acre, Israel. The event is played as an open tournament, with the participation of 130 players who will compete in 9 swiss rounds.

The top seeds are GM Evgeny Postny (2597), GM Ilia Smirin (2582), GM Evgeny Alekseev (2563), GM Ido Gorshtein (2523) and GM Victor Mikhalevski. The time control of the event is 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment, with addition of 30 minutes for each player after the 40th move. Live broadcast of the games can be followed here.

Final report and results are available here.

Playing schedule:

Round 1	January 21, 2024	15:00 GMT+2
Round 2	January 22, 2024	15:00 GMT+2
Round 3	January 23, 2024	15:00 GMT+2
Round 4	January 24, 2024	15:00 GMT+2
Round 5	January 25, 2024	15:00 GMT+2
Round 6	January 26, 2024	10:00 GMT+2
Round 7	January 27, 2024	18:30 GMT+2
Round 8	January 28, 2024	15:00 GMT+2
Round 9	January 29, 2024	13:00 GMT+2

Starting list of players – Israel Open Chess Championship 2024:

No.		Name	FED	RtgI
1	GM	Postny, Evgeny	ISR	2597
2	GM	Smirin, Ilia	ISR	2582
3	GM	Alekseev, Evgeny	ISR	2563
4	GM	Gorshtein, Ido	ISR	2523
5	GM	Mikhalevski, Victor	ISR	2524
6	GM	Kobo, Ori	ISR	2541
7	IM	Rozen, Eytan	ISR	2462
8	IM	Parkhov, Yair	ISR	2495
9	GM	Dvoirys, S. I.	FID	2466
10	IM	Tzidkiya, Yeshaayahu	ISR	2448
11	GM	Flom, Gabriel	FRA	2421
12	IM	Levin, Guy	ISR	2435
13	GM	Baron, Tal	ISR	2490
14	IM	Bronstein, Or	ISR	2441
15	IM	Efroimski, Marsel	ISR	2434
16	IM	Ben Ari, Yannay	ISR	2417
17	IM	Kochavi, Ori	ISR	2428
18	IM	Veinberg, Nimrod	ISR	2411
19	FM	Yaniv, Yuval	ISR	2383
20	FM	Zemach, Nadav	ISR	2384
21	FM	Shohat, Yotam	ISR	2328
22	FM	Streltsov, Alexey	ISR	2341
23	FM	Tifferet, Shakked	ISR	2334
24	IM	Milikow, Yoav	ISR	2376
25	IM	Zhizmer, Yuri	ISR	2323
26		Ljubarov, Mark	ISR	2305
27		Kraus, Ohad	ISR	2325
28		Slobodiansky, Steven	ISR	2273
29	FM	Vagman, Roy	ISR	2302
30	FM	Sherman, Raem	ISR	2295
31	GM	Bykhovsky, Avigdor	ISR	2349
32	FM	Kupervaser, Erez	ISR	2250
33	IM	Krayz, Alexander	ISR	2327
34	FM	Iliaguev, Kafar	ISR	2291
35		Gluhovsky, Mark	FID	2235
36		Sitbon, Itay	ISR	2213
37		Steiner-Prozhanski, Giora	ISR	2229
38	CM	Gavriely, Or	ISR	2106
39		Gov, Guy	ISR	2127
40	CM	Uritsky, Yonathan	ISR	2097
41		Pelech, Roee	ISR	2178
42	WFM	Kochavi, Dana	ISR	2121
43		Iliaguev, Daniel	ISR	2153
44		Levi, Netanel	ISR	2148
45		Katz, Kiril	ISR	2031
46		Pevzner, Maks	ISR	2072
47	CM	Menahem, Adi	ISR	2062
48	WFM	Orian, Noga	ISR	2052
49	WFM	Levitan, Ronit	ISR	2101
50		Ribstein, Orel	ISR	2043
51		Shilon Rahav, Eliran	ISR	2004
52		Taieb, Ariel	ISR	1986
53		Zakin, Ilay	ISR	2009
54		Azoulay, Yehonatan	ISR	2008
55		Kinberg, Ofer	ISR	1927
56		Dezent, Eyal	ISR	1947
57		Bodenshtein, Yair	ISR	1843
58		Kopelevich, Boris	ISR	2006
59		Vardi, Daniel	ISR	1791
60		Pashanov, Stanislav	ISR	1993
61		Kuritz, Zvi	ISR	1924
62		Mondri, Nadav	ISR	1823
63		Cohen, Avi	USA	1817
64		Noy, Shalom	ISR	1924
65		Rinberg, David	ISR	1790
66		Sternfeld, Tomer	ISR	1801
67		Dvorzhitsky, Alexander N	RUS	2034
68		Kluchik, Julia	FID	1968
69		Moshenberg, David	ISR	1847
70		Bulkovstein, David	ISR	1804
71		Meizlin, Yaacov	ISR	1857
72		Sason, Noam	ISR	1643
73		Gunders, Elad	ISR	1792
74		Snappir, Eitan	ISR	1818
75		Filshtinsky, Roman	ISR	1817
76		Kharouba, Wasim	ISR	1543
77		Lapushnian, Maya	ISR	1606
78		Tsabari, Ronen	ISR	1698
79		Lahmish, Shay	ISR	1664
80		Mendler, Omer	ISR	1537
81		Pogoreltsev, Arsenii	ISR	1642
82		Khairova, Evelina	ISR	1547
83		Selictar, Ori	ISR	1435
84		Pivnik, Mark	ISR	1635
85		Zakin, Lior	ISR	1431
86		Paskal, Ohad	ISR	1582
87		Sagalovich, Yakov	ISR	1636
88		Shamir, Alon	ISR	1496
89		Levitan, Liel	ISR	1479
90		Krupnik, Benaya	ISR	1446
91		Sapir, Omri	ISR	1480
92		Leor, Ephraim	ISR	1536
93		Blumenthal, Yonatan	ISR	1496
94		Keren, Roy	ISR	1286
95		Cohen, Israel	ISR	1474
96		Faran, Yair	ISR	1338
97		Vainshtein, Yakir	ISR	1492
98		Gordin, Nick Lior	ISR	0
99		Boulos, Boulos	ISR	1573
100		Daniel, Hadar	ISR	1371
101		Khokhlov, Yuriy	UKR	1423
102		Iskoz, Daniel	ISR	1266
103		Ron, Gil	ISR	1311
104		Kahan, Sami	ISR	1499
105		Najjar, Munib	ISR	0
106		Khir, Jamal	ISR	1205
107		Kaadan, Lina	ISR	1286
108		Politansky, Haim	ISR	1376
109		Shtankrit, Gay	ISR	0
110		Fransis, Vasim	ISR	0
111		Khir, Emin Wafi	ISR	0
112		Khir, Yoseph Wafi	ISR	1080
113		Rosen, Ori	ISR	1052
114		Cohen, Eilon	ISR	0
115		Rodriguez, Aviad	ISR	0
116		Halbi, Melan	ISR	0
117		Regev, Itay	ISR	0
118		Vancsa, Aron	ISR	0
119		Elimelich, Oran	ISR	0
120		Meron, Yuval	ISR	0
121		Mhamid, Layth	ISR	0
122		Davidovich, Zvi	ISR	0
123		Gal, Erez	ISR	0
124		Hallak, Roee	ISR	0
125		Hershkovich, Iosef	ARG	0
126		Kahana, Amir Doron	ISR	0
127		Nashashibi, Iliya	ISR	0
128		Noginsky, David	ISR	0
129		Razilov, Rafael	ISR	0
130		Sharp, Kai	ISR	0
131		Shmidel, Michael	ISR	0