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Daniel Elyakim

Israeli chess player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ5217071 ↗
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Daniel Elyakim (Hebrew: דניאל אליקים; born 1953) is a chess player who holds the title of International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and was the Israeli champion of correspondence chess for the 1986 championship. He lives in Ramat Gan.

Major tournaments that Elyakim played in the past or is playing currently.

Elyakim ICCF rating is 2539 (updated 9.2008) and he holds the 5th place in Israel.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Daniel Elyakim” as israeli chess player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953, 1986, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-11-03. The account is most persuasive where Daniel, Elyakim and Israeli can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as israeli chess player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5217071. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953, 1986 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Daniel Elyakim” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.