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Itzhak Shlakman memorial 2026 A

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22 players participated in this 7-round tournament, held from 01 Dec 2025 to 12 Jan 2026 in Netanya, Israel. 1 titled players. Top 10 Elo average was 2045, and top seed was Arie Axelrod (🇮🇱 ISR, FM, 2182).

Arie Axelrod (🇮🇱 ISR, FM, 2182) won with 5.0/7, ahead of Yosef Lipes (5.0) and Igor Temnik (5.0). Axelrod won on tie-break after catching the field in the final round.

The biggest upset came in round 4: Zivi Zuker (1737) beat Alexander Bichuch (2024), a +287-point gap.

Location
🇮🇱Netanya, Israel
Dates
01 Dec 2025 → 12 Jan 2026
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 7 rounds
Top seed
🇮🇱FMArie Axelrod2182
Avg top 10
2,045
Participants
22
Titled players · 1
FM×1
Federations · 1 represented
🇮🇱Israel×22
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 7 rounds

Tight race until R7; 3 players tied at 5.0/7, decided on Buchholz. Title race narrowed from 3 co-leaders at R4 to 3 at the finish.

Co-leaders
8
1
2
3
2
2
3
23.55.57R1R2R3R4R5R6R7
Temnik5Axelrod5Lipes5Klevinskiy4.5Zelikov4.5Gal On4
R7 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

3 players finish on 5.0/7. Axelrod takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (25.5).

R6 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Igor Temnik beat FM Arie Axelrod (White).

R1–R7 · UNBEATEN

Igor Temnik went unbeaten across 7 games (R1–R7).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Igor Temnik*
1
½
—
2FMArie Axelrod
0
*
½
½
3Yosef Lipes
½
½
*
½
4Konstantin Klevinskiy—
½
½
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Axelrod, ArieFM2182ISR+19B=4N+14B=2N+5B−3N+10B5.025.528.018.252132-2.0
2Lipes, Yosef2055ISR+20B+9N=6B=1B+8N=4N=3B5.025.527.518.252164+20.8
3Temnik, Igor2040ISR+16N=5B=7N=8B+17N+1B=2N5.025.027.519.002147+20.6
4Klevinskiy, Konstantin1925ISR+18N=1B=5N=9B=6N=2B+8N4.525.528.017.002097+32.8
5Zelikov, Anatoly1919ISR+21B=3N=4B+19N−1N+6B=7N4.525.027.015.252090+31.2
6Hasidovsky, Michael2064ISR+11N=7B=2N=15N=4B−5N+9B4.025.028.015.252039-4.4
7Gal On, Itai1977ISR+12B=6N=3B=10NF+9N=5B4.024.027.015.502113+33.6
8Rinberg, David1982ISR=15B=10N+12B=3N−2B+14N−4B3.524.527.512.251991-6.8
9Brio, Konstantin1890ISR+22N−2B+17N=4N+10B−7B−6N3.523.525.09.751961+6.6
10Chazan, Yonatan2109ISR=17N=8B+18N=7B−9N+11B−1N3.522.024.511.001970-25.0
11Desyatnikov, Ilya0ISR−6B−14N+22B+21N+12B−10N=13N3.519.521.08.751912-24.4
12Zuker, Zivi1737ISR−7N+22B−8N+13B−11N=18B+20B3.519.020.58.251918+22.8
13Bichuch, Alexander2024ISR=14B=19N=15B−12N=18B+17N=11B3.518.020.59.751913-41.2
14Volkov, Yuri1831ISR=13N+11B−1N−17B+22N−8B=16N3.021.022.58.251896+6.8
15Feldman, Gidi2094ISR=8N=17B=13N=6BFF+18N3.020.523.09.252030-7.6
16Kremer, Eli1874ISR−3B−21N+20B=18N+19BF=14B3.018.020.07.251886+2.0
17Moroz, Mark1885ISR=10B=15N−9B+14N−3B−13B=21N2.521.523.57.251875-2.2
18Lagun, Michael1800ISR−4B+20N−10B=16B=13N=12N−15B2.521.023.07.001868+7.6
19Babushkin, Alexey1915ISR−1N=13B+21B−5B−16N−20N+22B2.520.021.55.251809-21.0
20Epstein, Vadim1920ISR−2N−18B−16N−22N+21B+19B−12N2.018.520.04.501698-39.4
21Klevinskiy, David1792ISR−5N+16B−19N−11B−20N=22B=17B2.018.019.55.001723-13.2
22Moshevitz, Alexander1725ISR−9B−12N−11N+20B−14B=21N−19N1.518.020.03.001661-3.6

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets