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Israel Team Championship 2026 - Group B

9 Jan to 6 Feb 2026 · Herzliya, Israel · 8-teams round-robin · 90+30 Finished

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Team standings

Team standings, Israel Team Championship 2026 - Group B
#	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	TB1	TB2
1	"Feldklein" Rishon LeZion	*	5	5	2	5	5	5	5½	12	32.5
2	Hapoel Kfar Saba A	1	*	3½	4	3	4	3	6	10	24.5
3	Rishon LeZion B "Zohar Olpiner"	1	2½	*	4	5	3½	3	4½	9	23.5
4	Elizur Chess4All Savyon A	4	2	2	*	3	2	3½	4	7	20.5
5	Herzliya Chess Club	1	3	1	3	*	3	3	5	6	19
6	Haifa Nesher Chess Club	1	2	2½	4	3	*	2½	4½	5	19.5
7	Hapoel Kfar Saba B	1	3	3	2½	3	3½	*	2½	5	18.5
8	Atudat Haim Herzliya	½	0	1½	2	1	1½	3½	*	2	10

TB1 Matchpoints (2 for wins, 1 for Draws, 0 for Losses) · TB2 points (game-points)

Ranking crosstable (Pts.). Official ranking from chess-results.com.

Team matches by round

Every team match with its boards, and team pages with full rosters.

Top 100 players in this event

IM Marsel Efroimski ★: No. 20, 3½/5, performance 2330 (-2)
GM Boris Gelfand ★: No. 42, 1½/2, performance 2734 (+3)

Standings

Standings, Israel Team Championship 2026 - Group B
#	Player	Team	Rating	Score	Games	Perf	Change
1	IM Ariel Erenberg	"Feldklein" Rishon LeZion	2489	6	7	2589	+7
2	IM Or Bronstein	"Feldklein" Rishon LeZion	2470	6	7	2649	+13
3	GM Maxim Rodshtein	"Feldklein" Rishon LeZion	2600	5½	7	2694	+8
4	GM Arseniy Nesterov	Haifa Nesher Chess Club	2595	5½	7	2709	+10
5	IM Feliks Tulchynskyi	Rishon LeZion B "Zohar Olpiner"	2414	5½	7	2600	+16
6	GM Nitzan Steinberg	"Feldklein" Rishon LeZion	2556	5	7	2544	0
7	GM Evgeny Zanan	"Feldklein" Rishon LeZion	2505	5	7	2523	+2
8	GM Ilan Manor	Herzliya Chess Club	2454	5	7	2485	+4
9	GM Ido Gorshtein	Hapoel Kfar Saba A	2554	4½	7	2594	+5
10	GM Danny Raznikov	Hapoel Kfar Saba A	2441	4½	6	2509	+6
11	IM Ido Ben Artzi	Hapoel Kfar Saba B	2339	4½	7	2491	+15
12	CM Noam Sason	Elizur Savion Chess Club A	2197	4½	7	2347	+14
13	GM Yahli Sokolovsky	Rishon LeZion B "Zohar Olpiner"	2537	4	7	2532	0
14	GM Eduardas Rozentalis	Hapoel Kfar Saba A	2459	4	6	2477	+2
15	IM Alon Mindlin	Hapoel Kfar Saba A	2458	4	6	2431	-1
16	GM Dov Zifroni	Herzliya Chess Club	2454	4	7	2462	+1
17	GM Ram Soffer	Elizur Savion Chess Club A	2426	4	7	2445	+2
18	FM Ezra Paul Chambers	Haifa Nesher Chess Club	2343	4	7	2400	+6
19	GM Dan Zoler	Herzliya Chess Club	2493	3½	7	2442	-4
20	IM Marsel Efroimski ★	"Feldklein" Rishon LeZion	2375	3½	5	2330	-2
21	IM Yoav Milikow	Hapoel Kfar Saba B	2361	3½	4	2638	+12
22	FM Noam Aviv Vitenberg	Elizur Savion Chess Club A	2307	3½	7	2369	+12
23	FM Ilay Zakin	Rishon LeZion B "Zohar Olpiner"	2292	3½	6	2294	0
24	GM Avital Boruchovsky	Hapoel Kfar Saba A	2521	3	7	2350	-16
25	IM Yuval Yaniv	Rishon LeZion B "Zohar Olpiner"	2462	3	4	2563	+5
26	GM Gad Rechlis	Herzliya Chess Club	2457	3	7	2329	-12
27	IM Roy Vagman	Rishon LeZion B "Zohar Olpiner"	2386	3	6	2366	-2
28	GM Alexander Finkel	Hapoel Kfar Saba B	2377	3	7	2387	+1
29	FM Alexander Zlatin	Atudat Haim Herzliya	2224	3	6	2446	+33
30	IM Yeshaayahu Tzidkiya	Elizur Savion Chess Club A	2470	2½	7	2376	-9
31	FM Ari Guz	Rishon LeZion B "Zohar Olpiner"	2358	2½	6	2274	-14
32	FM Michael Kreizberg	Elizur Savion Chess Club A	2316	2½	6	2254	-11
33	IM Alexander Krayz	Atudat Haim Herzliya	2286	2½	7	2348	+5
34	GM Alik Gershon	Hapoel Kfar Saba B	2431	2	6	2373	-5
35	IM Asaf Givon	Hapoel Kfar Saba A	2419	2	6	2252	-13
36	IM Nadav Zemach	Rishon LeZion B "Zohar Olpiner"	2412	2	5	2304	-7
37	GM Michael Oratovsky	Elizur Savion Chess Club A	2374	2	4	2381	0
38	GM Ronen Lev	Herzliya Chess Club	2350	2	7	2206	-13
39	Mikhail Linker	Haifa Nesher Chess Club	2242	2	7	2282	+5
40	WIM Noga Orian	Haifa Nesher Chess Club	2227	2	6	2219	-2
41	CM Ilya Gruzman	Haifa Nesher Chess Club	2118	2	2	2966	+23
42	GM Boris Gelfand ★	"Feldklein" Rishon LeZion	2630	1½	2	2734	+3
43	IM Elie Milikow	Hapoel Kfar Saba A	2388	1½	3	2314	-3
44	IM Tal Haimovich	Hapoel Kfar Saba B	2321	1½	6	2187	-10
45	FM Mark Liubarov	Haifa Nesher Chess Club	2314	1½	6	2187	-19
46	Ori Newman	Hapoel Kfar Saba B	2298	1½	5	2173	-17
47	IM Eyal Deutsch	Hapoel Kfar Saba B	2262	1½	5	2181	-6
48	FM Itzhak Ben-Menachem	Herzliya Chess Club	2249	1½	6	2085	-25
49	CM Yevgeny Khazan	Atudat Haim Herzliya	2135	1½	7	2075	-10
50	Daniel Porat	Atudat Haim Herzliya	2133	1½	4	2289	+14
51	GM Andrey Sumets	UKR	2514	1	3	2443	-2
52	IM Gaby Livshits	Hapoel Kfar Saba A	2441	1	1	2805	+1
53	Alik Fishman	Atudat Haim Herzliya	2232	1	5	2132	-12
54	FM Tal Levitan	Haifa Nesher Chess Club	2175	1	5	2120	-7
55	Adam Zhemailov	Hapoel Kfar Saba B	2138	1	2	2169	+1
56	Ofer Kinberg	Atudat Haim Herzliya	2014	1	3	2133	+7
57	FM Yair Hoffmann	Elizur Savion Chess Club A	2357	½	1	2498	+4
58	Pavel Kogan	Atudat Haim Herzliya	2217	½	2	2245	+1
59	WFM Ronit Levitan	Haifa Nesher Chess Club	2098	½	1	2375	+7
60	IM Yan Galburd	Rishon LeZion B "Zohar Olpiner"	2422	0	1	1800	-3

Showing the top 60 of 65 players, plus every top-100 player. See the full results page for everyone else.

Games

Games
Round	Game	Result
2.1	Yahli Sokolovsky – Boris Gelfand	½-½

Games involving a top-100 player. Click a game to replay it.

Standings and games from Lichess broadcasts. ★ marks a player on the FIDE top 100 lists.