Svidler wins Jerusalem Masters

by André Schulz
9/26/2024 – Peter Svidler is the winner of the 2024 Jerusalem Masters. On the second day of the rapid chess tournament, the St Petersburg-born player built on his strong performance from the day before to finish the tournament in first place, one point ahead of Jorden van Foreest and Daniil Dubov. | Photos: Tournament page / Dr. ML Photos
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Peter Svidler is the clear winner of the Jerusalem Masters 2024. Ten players took part in this rapid tournament, which was part of a three-day chess festival. Five players were from Israel and five from other countries.

Peter Svidler was top seed, and lived up to his role as favourite. He finished day 1 of the rapid tournament with 4.0/5 to share the lead Vasyl Ivanchuk. Svidler then began two 2 with two wins in a row.

In addition to Idor Gorshtein, Svidler also defeated Evgeny Postny. After a draw with Dutchman Jorden van Foreest in round eight, Svidler suffered a defeat to Daniil Dubov, but it did not threaten his victory.

Ivanchuk, however, was unable to repeat his good result from the first day of the tournament. The veteran began with a win over Postny, but then suffered three successive defeats to van Foreest, Dubov and Pavel Eljanov.

Jorden van Foreest and Daniil Dubov

Van Foreest started day 1 with 2.5/5, but on day 2 he scored 3 points from four games and finished second on tiebreak, ahead of Dubov and Avital Boruchovsky. All three finished on 5.5/9.

The 28-year-old Avital Boruchovsky, a Grandmaster since 2014, is thus the best local player in the tournament.

The players of the Masters with officials

Final standings Masters

Rk. Name Pts  Tb1 
1 Svidler, Peter 6,5 25,75
2 Van Foreest, Jorden 5,5 25,75
Dubov, Daniil 5,5 25,75
4 Boruchovsky, Avital 5,5 19,75
5 Ivanchuk, Vasyl 5 19,25
6 Eljanov, Pavel 4,5 18,00
7 Smirin, Ilia 4 15,25
8 Rodshtein, Maxim 4 15,00
9 Postny, Evgeny 2,5 9,50
10 Gorshtein, Ido 2 10,50

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Jerusalem Open

With over 300 participants, most of them from Israel, the Open was very well attended. A number of grandmasters and other titleholders took part. The winner was Grandmaster Yahli Sokolovsky who won with 8.0/9 on tiebreak, ahead of GM Dan Zoler, who also had 8.0/9.

Final standings Open

Rk. Snr Name Country Elo EloI EloN Pts.  Tb1   Tb2   Tb3 
1 1
GM Sokolovsky, Yahli ISR 2563 2291 2563 8 0 53 58
2 7
GM Zoler, Dan ISR 2496 2351 2496 8 0 47,5 51,5
3 3
IM Gorodetzky, David ISR 2522 2397 2522 7,5 0 52,5 56,5
4 15
GM Van Foreest, Lucas NED 2531 2448 2531 7,5 0 51,5 55,5
5 5
IM Rozen, Eytan ISR 2505 2444 2505 7,5 0 50,5 54,5
6 17
IM Levin, Guy ISR 2432 2363 2432 7,5 0 47 51
7 12
IM Aizenberg, Benny ISR 2460 2394 2460 7 0 51,5 55,5
8 13
IM Bronstein, Or ISR 2460 2351 2460 7 0 51 56
9 6
IM Ben Ari, Yannay ISR 2497 2338 2497 7 0 50,5 55
10 10
GM Mikhalevski, Victor ISR 2487 2462 2487 7 0 50,5 54,5
11 18
FM Zemach, Nadav ISR 2428 2285 2428 7 0 49,5 53,5
12 20
FM Iliaguev, Nisim ISR 2424 2320 2424 7 0 48 53
13 21
FM Sherman, Raem ISR 2421 2284 2421 7 0 46,5 50
14 31
FM Streltsov, Alexey ISR 2355 2235 2355 7 0 45,5 49,5
15 14
IM Shohat, Yotam ISR 2460 2333 2460 7 0 43,5 47,5
16 37
FM Uritsky, Yonathan ISR 2305 2099 2305 7 0 43 47
17 67
Gurevich, Yosef ISR 2154 1939 2154 7 0 37,5 41
18 4
IM Erenberg, Ariel ISR 2514 2383 2514 6,5 0 51,5 56,5
19 28
GM Kantsler, Boris ISR 2359 2293 2359 6,5 0 49 52
20 24
FM Liubarov, Mark ISR 2398 2225 2398 6,5 0 47 51

304 players

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André Schulz started working for ChessBase in 1991 and is an editor of ChessBase News.
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