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Goldberg, Shmuel

🇿🇦INACTIVE · since April 2025

FIDEFIDE 14317737· Male· South Africa· Born in 1998

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Shmuel Goldberg, a 28-year-old South African player, is rated 1999 — his current career high and sitting in the top 3% of South African players. He plays around 8 rated games per year. Also played 1 rapid event (including Jerusalem Rapid Open Chess Championship 2026) recently. He reached South African #36 in Apr 2023.

At junior level, he reached #9, #21 and #26 nationally in U20, U18 and U16.

Current rating

1999

Standard

Rpd1910·Blz1988

All-time high

1999

at best
Apr 2025 · age 27

Activity

1

games / yr avg.

classical only
Occasional

Signature stat

Top 3%

#57 · South African players · of 1,804

Career timeline

11 entries
2025
All-time peak 1999
at age 27
Apr 2025
Inactive for 13 months
paused at 1999 → still inactive
Apr 2025
2023
Peak South African rank: #36
at age 25 · rated 1948
Apr 2023
2018
9th South African U20 player
at age 20 · rated 1820
Oct 2018
Best 12-month gain (+209 Elo)
1611 → 1820
Jul 2018
Crossed 1800
at age 20
May 2018

Standard rating history

Peak
FIDE title
Threshold
First rated
Inactive period
COVID-19
FIDE recal.

Activity & highlights

Evolution
0
1999 → 1999
Tournaments
1
1 games
Score
0/ 10.0%
0W0D1L
Top wins
No standard wins or draws in the last 12 months.
Top 1 loss
1.[L]vsAlexander KundinIM2,246·Artzit A 2026 6-8·R8·-3.9

Last 12 months — tournaments

1 event
EventDateScoreRankPerfΔ Elo
Artzit A 2026 6-8
Open Swiss
May 20260/1#721446-3.8

Most-Played Opponents

vsArkadij Slonimskij
🇷🇺RUS·2123
+3 −10 =0
13 games·last met Nov 2026
View head-to-head →
vsLev Lukovski
🇩🇪GER·1610
+9 −4 =0
13 games·last met Nov 2022
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vsIgor Berenboym
🇮🇱ISR·2043
+5 −4 =2
11 games·last met Jun 2027
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vsYochay Vazana
🇮🇱ISR·2104
+0 −9 =1
10 games·last met Sep 2029
View head-to-head →
vsNatan Levin
🇮🇱ISR·1876
+6 −4 =0
10 games·last met Nov 2022
View head-to-head →

Rankings

/
South Africa
#49
out of 1,876 players
Africa
#635
in continent
World
#27,946
out of 400,000+

National ranking

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