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Evgeny Postny

Evgeny Postny is an Israeli chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster and was part of the Israeli team that won silver at the 2008 Chess Olympiad.

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Born: 3 July 1981, Novosibirsk
Occupation: chess player

Evgeny Postny was born in 1981 in Novosibirsk

Evgeny Postny was born in Novosibirsk on 3 July 1981. His father taught him chess at age 5, and he began playing in tournaments at age 8.

As a junior, he won the Russian under 14 championship. In 1999 he took silver at the European Youth Championship and bronze at the World Youth Championship, both under 18. In 2001 he won bronze at the European Junior Championship and won both the Israeli junior championship and the Israeli Open Championship.

FIDE named him International Master in 2000 and Grandmaster in 2002. He won or shared first place in tournaments in Budapest, Metz, Dresden, Stockholm, Nancy and elsewhere, and shared the 2018 U.S. Masters Chess Championship. He played in the FIDE World Cup in 2011 and 2013.

He debuted for the Israeli national team at the 2008 Olympiad in Dresden, where Israel won its first Olympiad medal. He has also played in the World and European team championships. In Israel's national league he plays for the Beer Sheva club and won the 2018 Israeli blitz championship.