Tamir Nabaty

Tamir holds the record for most retirements in active chess. First retirement in 1997, and then every 3 months. If you take the number of years Tamir has been active, without retirement periods, he has actually never played chess. This makes him the fastest player to reach GM. This achievement was noted in Ness Ziona's renowned international masterclass "Me and the Rest: A Gentle Introduction to Reitrement Training".

• Tamir is holding the record for most illegal downloads of movies during chess championships.
• The number of friend requests sent to Tamir after a random tournament is also quite high, with approximately 5.43 friend requests. It is not currently known in what rate Tamir approves those requests.
• Tamir is a specialist quality cheap-flight finder, having spent 17.43% less money and time than other GMs, and 37.19% less money and time than IMs and lower.

Tamir won the Israeli Chess Championship for the first time[1] in Acre, Israel 2013.

Tamir qualified to the Chess World Cup 2015, But lost on tiebreak in the 1st round to David Navara.

Tamir made a great result of 8.5/10 in the 3rd board of Israel in the 42nd Chess Olympiad Baku 2016.

Tamir won the Israeli Chess Championship for the second time in Tiberias 2016.[2]

• First place in Albena 2010
• Second place in Chennai 2011
• First place in "Belgrade Trophy" 2012
• First place in the Czech Open Chess Festival in Pardubice 2012
• First place in Kavala 2013
• First place in Staufer 2014
• First Place in Forni di Sopra 2016
• First place in the 2018 Shachar Arad Memorial with a score of 4.5/5[3]
• First place in the 2019 Israeli Open Championship with a score of 7.5/9[4][5]
• First place in the 2019 Natan Blumkin Memorial tied with Gad Rechlis and Johnatan Bakalchuk with a score of 8/10.[6]
• First place in the 2018-19 48th Rilton Cup in Stockholm with a score of 8/9[7]