{"id":130059,"date":"2026-05-25T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/130059\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:18:11","slug":"israeli-chess-grandmaster-wins-world-championship-will-compete-in-deaflympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/130059\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli chess grandmaster wins world championship, will compete in Deaflympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-year-old Israeli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/chess\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chess<\/a> grandmaster Yehuda Greenfeld, the most decorated deaf chess player in the world, took first place at the World Deaf Chess Championship in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-897058\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain<\/a> this month, winning two gold medals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Greenfeld\u2019s position has secured him a spot at the 2027 Deaflympics in Austria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">During the tournament, Greenfeld, along with fellow players Saar Yanko and bronze medalist Evgeny Shvetsyuk, competed alongside hundreds of chess players from 43 countries, though several countries withdrew from the event due to Israel\u2019s participation.<\/p>\n<p>Greenfeld\u2019s record includes multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/article-897182\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">European<\/a> and world championship titles, and his name has become synonymous with chess for deaf athletes worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Before the tournament, Greenfeld expressed hope that the Israeli delegation\u2019s presence in Spain, given the current climate, would help improve relations between the two countries and Europe in General.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYehuda is a symbol of willpower, perseverance, and inspiring Israeli representation,\u201d said Jimmy Hatzbani, chairman of the Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-897049\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deaf<\/a> Sports Association. \u201cEven at 70, he is coming to compete against the best in the world and is not afraid of any opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seventy-year-old Israeli chess grandmaster Yehuda Greenfeld, the most decorated deaf chess player in the world, took first place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[17200,43111,43618,37,8178,549],"class_list":["post-130059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-chess","tag-deaf","tag-deaflympics","tag-israel","tag-israel-sports","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116634943736542533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}