Yochanan Afek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yochanan Afek

Israeli chess player, composer, trainer and arbiter

Date of Birth: 16-Apr-1952

Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Profession: chess arbiter, chess composer, chess player, chess coach, chess journalist, chess organiser

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Yochanan Afek (Hebrew: ????? ????; born Yohanan Kopelovich, 16 April 1952 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli chess player, composer, trainer and arbiter.
He described pioneering Israeli master Moshe Czerniak as “my teacher”.
He is the only person to possess international titles at five different facets of chess, being an International Master, International Grandmaster of chess composition, International Arbiter, FIDE master in problem solving (2005), and International Judge for chess compositions.
In 2002 he won Paris City Chess Championship (off contest). Afek won the prestigious Art chess tournament in Amsterdam organized by the foundation for aristocratic art and culture (stichting Aristocratische Cultuur en Kunst) where various grandmasters participated. The second chapter of Tibor Karolyi's 2009 book Genius in the Background is devoted to him.