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Kan, Efim
🇧🇬FIDE 2922886· Male· Bulgaria· Born in 2005
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Efim Kan, a 21-year-old Bulgarian player, is rated 2030 — just 1 short of his peak of 2031 (Dec 2025, age 20). He is on a steady climb with +64 Elo over the past 12 months. 27 rated games in the past year (≈24/year long-term). Recent standard appearances include Wiener Betriebsmeisterschaft 2025-2026 A-Liga Round 5-6, Wiener Advent Open 2025 Gruppe A, and Wiener Betriebsmeisterschaft 2025-2026 C-Liga Round 3-4. Also played 1 rapid (including Grand Prix PlusCity - Open Austrian Team Rapid Championship 2025) and 2 blitz events (including WU Tournament Series 4 - Vladislav) recently. He had 2 career breaks: 14 months (2022–2024) and 14 months (2024–2025). He reached Bulgarian #98 in Jul 2025.
Competes for Bulgaria since Oct 2018. At junior level, he reached #8, #8, #6, #6, #7 and #4 nationally in U20, U18, U16, U14, U12 and U10.
Current rating
2030
Standard
Rpd2030·Blz2009
All-time high
2031
−1 pts below
Dec 2025 · age 20
Dec 2025 · age 20
Activity
11
games / yr avg. · ≈1/mo
27 past 12 mo · ≈2/mo
classical only
Moderately active
classical only
Moderately active
Signature stat
#23,245
#23,245 · players worldwide · of 218,279
Career timeline
20 entries2025
8th Bulgarian U20 player
at age 20 · rated 2031
Dec 2025
All-time peak 2031
at age 20 · −1 from today
Dec 2025
Peak Bulgarian rank: #98
at age 20 · rated 2019
Jul 2025
Re-crossed 2000
at age 20
Jul 2025
2024
K-factor lowered to 20
at age 19
Jan 2024
Inactive for 14 months
paused at 1929 → returned at 1966
Jan 2024
Standard rating history
Peak
FIDE title
Threshold
First rated
Inactive period
COVID-19
FIDE recal.
Activity & highlights
Top opponent
Evolution
+11
2019 → 2030
Tournaments
7
27 games
Score
19/ 2770.4%
16W6D5L
Top 3 wins
Top 3 losses
Last 12 months — tournaments
7 events| Event | Date | Score | Rank | Perf | Δ Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Team | Jan 2026 | 1/1 | #13 | 2813 | +9.4 |
Swiss | Dec 2025 | 3.5/7 | #18 | 1973 | -11.4 |
Team | Nov 2025 | 0.5/1 | #49 | 2084 | +1.6 |
Team | Oct 2025 | 0.5/1 | #32 | 2059 | +1.0 |
Team | Oct 2025 | 1/1 | #32 | 2789 | +9.2 |
Open Swiss | Sep 2025 | 6/9 | #5 | 1999 | -0.4 |
Open Swiss | Jun 2025 | 6.5/7 | #1 | 2369 | +53.6 |
Most-Played Opponents
vsYavor Nikolov
🇧🇬BUL·2046
+3 −5 =1
9 games·last met Dec 2023
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vsNikola Dimov
🇧🇬BUL·1818
+2 −2 =2
6 games·last met Jul 2021
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vsAlex Kostev
🇧🇬BUL·1650
+4 −1 =1
6 games·last met Jul 2021
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vsIvan Karadzhov
🇧🇬BUL·2135
+2 −3 =1
6 games·last met Jun 2021
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vsStanislav Botev
🇧🇬BUL·1965
+1 −1 =3
5 games·last met Jul 2021
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Rankings
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Bulgaria
#110
out of 1,136 players
Europe
#17,117
in continent
World
#23,245
out of 400,000+
National ranking
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