Yair Parkhov

Yair Parkhov was born in 2002

Yair Parkhov was born on November 24, 2002, in Rehovot. His father, David Parkhov, is a programmer, and his mother is Maya Parkhov. His brother, Koren Parkhov, is a marathon runner.

He began studying chess at age 8 at the Tsafrir Hoover Rehovot chess club. He played for the club in Israel and abroad, first coached by Alexander Michalevsky. He later moved to the Beersheba city chess club.

He became a FIDE Master in 2017 and an International Master in 2019, the year he won the Israel Junior Chess Championship. In 2021 he played for Israel at the second Online Chess Olympiad. He received the grandmaster title in April 2024, during the Sardinia World Chess Festival.

In January 2025 he won the Israeli Chess Championship with 7 points out of 9, half a point ahead of Yahli Sokolovsky. He studies data science at the University of Texas at Dallas and plays on its chess team.