Afek Yochanan (16.04.1952)

Israeli player, journalist, organizer and a coach. He is the only person to possess international titles at four different facets of chess, being an International Master, International Grandmaster of chess composition (one of only seven living title-holders), International Arbiter (1988), and International Arbiter of the chess compositions (1988). Afek is living in Amsterdam.

Best results: Winner at Paris Open in 2002.

Taught by Moshe Czerniak, he composed some 250 studies and problems of various genres with at least one hundred prizes and distinctions in composing tourneys. Columnist for the Israeli newspaper Maariv he is also writing in several European chess magazines and Informant. Director of hundred of chess tournaments in Israel.