3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities · Samarkand, Uzbekistan · 11–17 September 2026

Israel

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4 players over 7 rounds, a week before the 46th Olympiad opens in the same city.

seed 3 · avg 2150 3rd Place - 2nd DIS Olympiad
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The squad

Israel at the Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities

Israel

Seed 3 · average 2150

Captain: Levitan, Shon

Qualified as 3rd Place - 2nd DIS Olympiad

BdPlayerRating
1 GM Gruenfeld, Yehuda 2379
2 IM Deutsch, Eyal 2254
3 IM Gurbanov, Andrei 2191
4 WFM Aleksandrova, Aleksandra 1777

Board order is provisional until captains confirm it, and this page updates when it changes. Something wrong here? Tell us and we will fix it the same day.

What we provide

The analysis Israel receives, round by round.

All of it is built and running — the same engine that produced the worked example on the partner page, from the real game files of a previous Olympiad. Nothing here is a plan.

A full report after every round

Every board on its own: result, opening, how the evaluation moved through the game, the exact moves that turned it and what each cost, the clock, and the complete move list.

A dossier on the next opponents

Before each round, what every opponent has played at this event — their openings on both colours, their accuracy, their results, and whether they run short of time.

Opening preparation

What actually scores against the move an opponent opens with, measured over thousands of games between players of the same standard — with the sample size on every figure.

Each player across the event

Every round side by side: accuracy, opponent, clock, result — and what changed between the first half and the second. The answer to "is board 3 holding up?"

Per-player NCR profiles

A #myNCR profile for every player in the squad, with their rating history and their own reports — theirs to keep after the event.

A team book at the end

The whole event as one designed PDF: every round, every player, the openings played and the numbers behind them.

See a real round report, with the numbers →

Who runs disabled chess in Israel

The federation

Israel Chess Federation

Yigal Alon street 155, Tel Aviv, Israel

Website
chess.org.il
Email
office@chessfed.org.il liga@chessfed.org.il
Phone
+972 36437627
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Directory entry

Office details as published in the FIDE member-federation directory. All 7 officials are named below, with their posts. Something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.

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Who holds which post

All 7 officials of Israel Chess Federation, in the order FIDE lists them — which puts the president first. Write to whoever the letter actually belongs with.

Officials of Israel Chess Federation, with the post each holds and the contact details published for them in the FIDE member-federation directory.
Post Name Contact FIDE
Chairman Barkai, Zvika zvib2206@013net.net +972 546733689 Profile of Barkai, Zvika on the FIDE rating site
Delegate Slav, Moshe moshe@slavgroup.co.il Profile of Slav, Moshe on the FIDE rating site
Deputy Chairman David Glaz, Ilana Via the office Profile of David Glaz, Ilana on the FIDE rating site
Vice Chairman Kaliski, Dan Via the office Profile of Kaliski, Dan on the FIDE rating site
General Manager Boruhovski, Gil gil.boruhovski@gmail.com Profile of Boruhovski, Gil on the FIDE rating site
Secretary Dan, Miri office@chessfed.org.il Profile of Dan, Miri on the FIDE rating site
Assistant Manager/Rating Officer Zlatin, Dina liga@chessfed.org.il Profile of Zlatin, Dina on the FIDE rating site

Names, posts and contact details exactly as published in the FIDE member-federation directory — the entry for Israel Chess Federation. Where an official shows no direct line, FIDE publishes none; write to the office instead.

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