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ISR · 20 yrs · K=10 · Peak 2567 (Feb 2026)

Best performance: 2760 at Israel National League 2024 9-11(Best of 2024)

World #285 live, up 7#292 publishedIsrael #7Europe #164#28 U20 in the worldamong active players

NOV26 Rating

2552

Live Rating

2554.9

Change

+2.9

Games Played

2

How live ratings are calculated

Rating History · Classical

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Classical rating 2537 to 2552 over the last 12 months; peak 2567 in February 2026.

Official rating by month

Each month: the rating, its change from the list before, and the rated games FIDE counted.

ListClassicalRapidBlitz
Nov 20262552, +10, 7 games2441, 0, 0 games2423, 0, 0 games
Oct 20262542, -4, 8 games2441, +9, 9 games2423, 0, 0 games
Sep 20262546, +5, 9 games2432, 0, 0 games2423, -1, 12 games
Aug 20262541, -17, 9 games2432, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games
Jul 20262558, -9, 4 games2432, +10, 11 games2424, 0, 0 games
Jun 20262567, +3, 9 games2422, +2, 9 games2424, 0, 0 games
May 20262564, +5, 11 games2420, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games
Apr 20262559, +4, 3 games2420, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games
Mar 20262555, -12, 6 games2420, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games
Feb 20262567, +30, 13 games2420, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games
Jan 20262537, 0, 0 games2420, +23, 20 games2424, 0, 0 games
Dec 20252537, 0, 0 games2397, 0, 0 games2424, 0, 0 games

Form · Classical

oldest → latest

Unbeaten in the last 5 games (3 wins, 2 draws), since Oct 21. Longest unbeaten run in 2026: 14 games, Aug 6 – Sep 24.

From 1,288 classical games on record, the latest on Nov 1.

Classical games since the November list

TournamentScoreChange
šachy.cz Extraliga 2026/2027Oct 31 – Apr 11, 2027TPR 26651½/2+2.9

Best wins · Classical

From 1,239 rated classical games against rated opponents, 2015–2026

#OpponentRating
1, GM Ilia Smirin, 2 wins, Mar 2021 · Israeli Open Championship Finals 2020, 2614
2, GM Emil Sutovsky, Feb 2024 · Israel National League 2024 5-8, 2593
3, GM Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis, Oct 2025 · European Team Ch 2025, 2583

Openings · Classical

From the moves of 466 of 1,288 classical games on record.

As WhiteOpens 1.e4 in 236 of 237 games.

As BlackMeets 1.e4 with 1...e5 or 1...c5, and 1.d4 with 1...Nf6.

All openings (7 as White, 16 as Black)
Openings in White gamesGamesScore
Sicilian Defense8571%
Ruy Lopez6673%
Caro-Kann Defense3472%
French Defense2650%
Petrov's Defense1271%

7 more games in openings played fewer than 3 times.

Event timeline · Classical

50 of 228 events

Events before the current rating period show the performance, not a rating change.

Live events show the rating change; earlier events show the performance rating.

Performance rating by year

YearGamesScoreAvg oppTPR
20268858½24272544
20251107224152525
20241399523892522
20231379123172434
202213083½22992401
20219251½23062349
20207035½22352242
201911458½21222129
20181227220082073
201711350½19521916
20169444½17481727
201530616821442

Games count in the month they were played. Each month and year is one performance rating over all of its rated games.

Recent opponents · Classical

GM Vlastimil BabulaIM Richard Stalmach

Rated near Yahli Sokolovsky · Classical

World

  1. #=281GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista2555.0
  2. #=281GM Mustafa Yilmaz2555.0
  3. #285GM Yahli Sokolovsky2554.9
  4. #286GM Jan Smeets2554.7
  5. #287GM Pierre Laurent-Paoli2554.1

Israel

  1. #5GM Nitzan Steinberg2560.0
  2. #6GM Ido Gorshtein2557.1
  3. #7GM Yahli Sokolovsky2554.9
  4. #8GM Semyon Lomasov2551.0
  5. #9GM Avital Boruchovsky2534.0

Live rating: FIDE’s November list plus every rated game played since. Not affiliated with FIDE.