Johnatan Bakalchuk (; born 1998) is an Israeli

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

since 2018 and a

FIDE The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( , ), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the Spor ...

Master since 2014. He won the Israeli Junior Championships in 2018. He won first place in the 2019 Natan Blumkin Memorial tied with

Gad Rechlis Gad Rechlis (; born 5 February 1967) is a Moldova born Israeli chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster (GM) (1992). Biography At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, Gad Rechlis was one of the leading Israeli chess playe ...

and

Tamir Nabaty Tamir Nabaty (; born 4 May 1991) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster and a four-time national chess champion (2013, 2016, 2019, 2021). During his peak ranking in March 2019, Tamir ranked 46th in the world according to the chess rating. Chess achie ...

with a score of 8/10. He won 2nd place in the Israeli U16 championship in 2013 and in 2014. He won 1st place in the Israeli U11 championship in 2009. He beat GM

Mikhail Antipov Mikhail Aleksandrovich Antipov (; born 10 June 1997) is a Russian chess grandmaster who plays for the United States. Chess career At the age of 15, Antipov was awarded the title of Master of Sports of Russia. He earned his first grandmaster ...

in the fifth round of the European championship in 2015.

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