Yochanan Afek
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| Yochanan Afek at the Chess Festival Groningen 2012 |
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| Born | April 16, 1952 Tel Aviv , Israel |
| title | International champion (1993) |
| Current Elo rating | 2202 (April 2020) |
| Best Elo rating | 2430 (July 1993) |
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Yochanan Afek (born April 16, 1952 as Yochanan Kopelovich in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli - Dutch chess composer , player , journalist, organizer and trainer.
chess
Afek is an international master and international referee, each for close-up chess and chess composition. He worked as a trainer in different countries. He has been living in the Netherlands for some time. Afek played in the Dutch ( 2000/01 for Bussums Schaakgenootschap ), French ( 2002/03 and 2004/05 for AJE Noyon ) and Belgian team championships ( 2003/04 for LVL Fortis, from 2004 to 2006 and 2009/10 for SC Jean Jaurès) in the top division. In Germany he played for SV Betzdorf-Kirchen and for Hamburger SK . In Israel he played for Bikurey Haetim Czerniak Tel Aviv , with whom he participated in the 1993 European Club Cup .
In the chess club in Tel Aviv, run by Moshe Czerniak , he met other chess composers. Chess studies became his field of activity, and he campaigned for their dissemination to a wider chess audience with numerous publications. For example, together with Alon Greenfeld , he wrote articles for the German magazine Schach , in which the connection between game and endgame study was thematized, later followed by a six-volume book series on chess pieces with Hans Böhm . Afek has replaced John Roycroft as spokesman for the WFCC Studies Commission and also edits the studies department of the English chess composition magazine The Problemist .
Magyar Sakkélet, 1978
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1.… Rb7 – b8
2. e7 – e8L! Bg8 – h7
3. f7 – f8B +! Kg6 – h6
4. Rf8 – f6 + g7 – g6 stalemate , or
1.… Kg6xf7
2. e7xd8S +! Kf7 – f8
3. Nd8 – e6 + Bg8xe6
4. d7 – d8D + Kf8 – f7
5. Qd8 – g8 + Kf7 – f6
6. Qg8xg7 + Rb7xg7 also stale .
The study shows an all-conversion .
Life
Afek witnessed the Iraqi rocket attacks on Ramat Gan during the second Gulf War in January 1991 .
bibliography
- Wij presenteren ... (2010–2015, six volumes, with Hans Böhm)
- Invisible Chess Moves (2011, with Emmanuel Neiman)
- Extreme Chess Tactics (2017)
- When less is more. The art of sub-transformation. In: Karl 3/2018, pp. 46–53
Web links
- Replayable chess games by Yochanan Afek on chessgames.com (English)
- Rochade Kuppenheim: The Studies of Yochanan Afek Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 (all English)
- Compositions by Yochanan Afek on the Schwalbe's PDB server
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eric van Reem: De veelzijdigheid van Yochanan Afek. In: SC Rochade Kuppenheim. March 2001, accessed April 22, 2018 (Dutch).
- ↑ International referees for chess compositions
- ↑ Individual results of the second team of the Hamburger SK in the 2010/11 season at the German Chess Federation
- ↑ Yochanan Afeks results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Friedrich Chlubna (Ed.): Endgame Virtuosity. A Selection of 222 Israeli Chess Studies . Vienna 1995. p. 27
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| SURNAME | Afek, Yochanan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kopelovich, Yochanan (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli-Dutch chess composer, player, journalist, organizer and trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |