Israel Chess Team

Israel's chess team represents Israel at international chess tournaments. Control and organization is carried out by the Chess Federation of Israel. The highest rating of the team - 2686 (2010). At the Olympics of 1935 and 1939, the predecessor of the Israeli team participated - the team of the British Mandate Territory of Palestine.

Content

International Tournaments

Chess Olympiad
Year	City	A place
1935	Warsaw	15 place
1937	Stockholm	did not participate
1939	Buenos Aires	9th place
1950	Dubrovnik	did not participate
1952	Helsinki	11th place
1954	Amsterdam	7th place
1956	Moscow	12th place
1958	Munich	17th place
1960	Leipzig	14th place
1962	Varna	15 place
1964	Tel Aviv	14th place
1966	Havana	19 place
1968	Lugano	18 place
1970	Siegen	13th place
1972	Skopje	18 place
1974	Nice	17th place
1976	Haifa	6th place
1978	Buenos Aires	5th place
1980	La valletta	8th place
1982	Lucerne	13th place
1984	Thessaloniki	13th place
1986	Dubai	did not participate
1988	Thessaloniki	11th place
1990	Novi Sad	16th place
1992	Manila	11th place
1994	Moscow	14th place
1996	Yerevan	17th place
1998	Elista	4th place
2000	Istanbul	5th place
2002	Bled	9th place
2004	Calvia	5th place
2006	Turin	4th place
2008	Dresden	2nd place
2010	Khanty-Mansiysk	3rd place
2012	Istanbul	26 place
2014	Tromso	9th place
2016	Baku	27 place

World Team Championship
Year	City	A place
2005	Beer Sheva	6th place
2010	Bursa	7th place
2011	Ningbo	9th place
2013	Antalya	did not participate
2015	Tsaghkadzor	7th place

European Team Championship
Year	City	A place
1980	Scara	7th place
1983	Plovdiv	did not participate
1989	Haifa	9th place
1992	Debrecen	4th place
1997	Pula	6th place
1999	Batumi	7th place
2001	Leon	6th place
2003	Plovdiv	2nd place
2005	Gothenburg	2nd place
2007	Heraklion	6th place
2009	Novi Sad	11th place
2011	Porto Carras	14th place
2013	Warsaw	28 place
2015	Reykjavik	did not participate
2017	Crete	6th place

Statistics

Turinre	Of participation	Years	Best result
Chess Olympiad	32	1935, 1939, 1952-1984, 1988—2012	(2008)
World Team Championship	3	2005-2011	6th place (2005)
European Team Championship	eleven	1980, 1989—2011	2 (2003, 2005)

National Team

2012 squad

Board	Chess player	Rating
1st	Boris Gelfand	2738
2nd	Emil Sutovsky	2687
3rd	Maxim Rodstein	2642
4th	Eugene Postny	2638
reserve	Boris Avrukh	2605
Israel national team		2676 ^[1]

Guards

More often than others the national team played:

At chess olympiads: Moshe Chernyak and Joseph Porat (both 11 times)
At the team world championships: Mikhail Royz , Ilya Smirin and Emil Sutovsky (all 3 times)
At the European team championships: Ilya Smirin (8 times)

Transfers

Gone
Chess player	Where	Year ^[2]
Roman Dzhindzhikhashvili	USA	1984
Vadim Milov	Switzerland	1999
Yehuda Grünfeld	ICSC ^[3]	2010

Have come
Chess player	Where from	Year ^[2]
Joseph Porat	Germany	1935
Menachem Oren	Poland	1952
Gedali Shapiro	Poland	1962
Leonid Yudasin	the USSR	1994
Boris Gelfand	Belarus	1999

Achievements

Team

Chess Olympiad

Silver medalist - 2008
Bronze medalist - 2010

Total: 2 medals

European Chess Team Championship

Silver medalist - 2003, 2005

Total: 2 medals

Individual classification

The most successful team players:

At chess olympiads:
- Shimon Kagan
  - 4th board (1968);
  - 4th board (1974)
- Boris Avrukh
  - 2nd backup board (1998)
  - 4th board (2006)
At the team world championships: Ilya Smirin 2nd board (2005)
At the European team championships:
- Boris Alterman
  - 1st board (1997)
  - performance rating 2814 (1997)
  - 4th board (1992)
- Emil Sutovsky
  - 3rd board (2003)
  - 2nd board (2005)
  - performance rating 2765 (2003)

Second Team

At the home team European Championships in 1989 in Haifa, as a host, Israel put forward, in addition to the main team, a second team, whose results, however, were not taken into account when allocating seats.

Notes

↑ The rating is calculated as the arithmetic average of four members of the national team with the highest rating.
↑ ¹ ^{2 The} year of the first participation for the new team is indicated.
↑ International Deaf Chess Committee

Links

Israel team-2 at the European team championships ( individual standings ; matches of the national team )

[1] The rating is calculated as the arithmetic average of four members of the national team with the highest rating.

[transfer-2] ¹ ^{2 The} year of the first participation for the new team is indicated.

[3] International Deaf Chess Committee