Johnatan Bakalchuk (born 1998) is an Israeli

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

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 ( Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national c ...

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 (GM) (1992). Biography At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, Gad Rechlis was one of the leading Israeli chess players. In 1988, he won th ...

and

Tamir Nabaty Tamir Nabaty ( he, תמיר נבאתי, born 4 May 1991) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster and a two-time national chess champion (2013, 2016). Chess achievements Israeli and world championships Tamir won the Israeli Chess Championship for the firs ...

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 in the fifth round of the European championship in 2015.

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Living people 1998 births Israeli chess players Chess International Masters {{Israel-chess-bio-stub