Victor Mikhalevski

Victor (Viktor) Mikhalevski (Hebrew: ויקטור מיכלבסקי; born 8 July 1972) is an Israeli chess grandmaster who lives in Beersheba.

He played for Israel as second reserve (+4 –1 =2) in the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin 2006 and at third board (+1 -1 =4) in the 17th European Team Championship at Novi Sad 2009.

He won the Calvià Open in Majorca, Spain in October 2007, winning in each of the first seven rounds to finish with a score of 8/9 for a performance of 2876.

In 2010, he tied for 2nd–5th with Michael Adams, Evgeniy Najer and Jiří Štoček the 14th Chicago Open,[2] and later in the same year he was a member of the bronze medal-winning Israel team for the 39th Chess Olympiad.

[3] In 2019, he won 2nd- 4th place in the Israeli Open Championships along with Gad Rechlis and Michal Lahav with 7/9 points.