On December 22nd I and two of my Russian friends from Arad attended the 'Championship of Israel' chess tournament held in Ashdod. We were there for Round #5.

(Me in the middle)

The top 10 players in the tourney were:
  1. GM 2670 Ilya Smirin (Israel)
  2. GM 2640 Evgeny Postny (Israel)
  3. GM 2605 Boris Avrukh (Israel)
  4. GM 2570 Vitali Golod (Israel)
  5. GM 2563 Tamir Nabaty (Israel)
  6. GM 2558 Alon Greenfeld (Israel)
  7. GM 2549 Viktor Mikhalevski (Israel)
  8. GM 2514 Evgeny Sveshnikov (Latvia)
  9. GM 2404 Tal Baron (Israel)
10. GM 2504 Leonid Gofshtein (Israel)

To see full line-up of players, click HERE!