Amikam Balshan is an Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master, who won the Israeli youth championship in 1965.

In 1967, he played in the World Junior Chess Championship

World Junior Chess Championship

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 in Jerusalem, as Julio Kaplan

Julio Kaplan

Julio Argentino Kaplan Pera a Puerto Rican chess player and former world junior champion.Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1963 to Puerto Rico, where he was raised and studied, and then later in his life to the United States, where he works for Autodesk. Earlier in his career, In the 1980s he...

 won.

Balshan represented Israel six times in World Student Team Chess Championships (1968–1972, 1974) winning the individual gold medal on fourth board, scoring 10/11, at Ybbs

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 1968.

He played for Israel in the 20th Chess Olympiad

20th Chess Olympiad

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 at Skopje

Skopje

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 1972, and won the individual silver medal at first reserve board (+10 –0 =6) there. He also represented Israel in the 7th European Team Chess Championship at Skara 1980.

In 1978/79, he took 15th in Hastings (Ulf Andersson

Ulf Andersson

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 won). He tied for 1st-2nd with Jacob Murey

Jacob Murey

Jacob Murey is a Russian-born Israeli chess grandmaster. , his Elo rating was 2433, making him the No. 39 player in Israel and the 1449th-highest rated player in the world. His peak rating was 2560 in 1989.-Chess career:...

 at Ramat Hasharon

Ramat Hasharon

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 1979, and shared 17th at Gausdal

Gausdal

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 1982 (Maxim Dlugy

Maxim Dlugy

Maxim Dlugy is a Grandmaster of chess. He was born on January 29, 1966 in Moscow, USSR. He arrived with his family in the United States in about 1979. He was a late developer and was only an average player for his age until he shot up in strength in the early 1980s. He was awarded the International...

won).

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