I was born in Gomel, in former Belorussia, USSR, which is now the Republic of Belarus, in 1972. I started to play chess at the age of 6.

My coach for the next 12-13 years was my brother, IM Alexander Mikhalevski. During these years I won no less than five Belarus championships for my age category and thus participated in five Junior USSR Championships. In 1991 I moved with my family to Israel. Two months later I shared 2-3rd place in the Israeli Open Championship. Later the same year and also in 1992 I won two Junior Israeli Championships. In the summer of 1991 participated in the Junior World Championship. IM from 1993, GM from 1996.

Here are some of my best results since 1991 until today:

1992 - 1st place in Tel Aviv Open 4.5 out of 5
1993 - 1st place in the "First Saturday" Budapest, Hungary (10 out of 13 and first GM-norm)
1994 - 1st place in the Week-end tournament in Kfar-Saba, Israel 5 out of 5
1994 - 1st place in the International Festival in Tel-Aviv, Israel 7.5 out of 9
1994 - Shared first in the Berlinner summer 7.5 out of 9
1995 - 1st place in an open tournament in Paris, France 7.5 out of 9
1995 - 1st place in Tel-Aviv Open 5 out of 5
1995 - Bronze medal winner in The European Club Cup in the team of Beer-Sheva
1996 - Co-winner of Israel Championship with GMs Psakhis and Yudasin
1997 - Shared first in the Open Dutch Championship
1997 - 1st place in the International Festival in Rishon-Lezion, Israel (ahead of GMs Smirin, Psakhis, Goldin and many others)
1997 - 1st place in the Rapid Israel Championship
1997 - Shared first in the Martigny Open, Switzerland 6 out of 7
1997 - Beer-Sheva- Olympic team match I won 2-0 against GM Smirin
1998 - 1st place in the 14th International Festival in Tel-Aviv, Israel
1998 - Shared 1st place in Vlissingen, Nederlands 6 out of 7
1998 - 1st place in Hoogeveen, Netherlands
1998 - Vice-Champion of Israel ( I have lost in the Finals on third(!) tie-break to GM Liss winning on the way against GMs Avrukh, Psakhis and Gruenfeld )
1999 - Shared first in Mind Sports Olympiad in London, England (rapid) 10.5 out of 15
1999 - Shared first in Lost Boys Antwerpen, Belgium
2000 - 1st place in Open Championship of Rishon-Lezion, Israel
2000 - 2nd place in Carlos Torre Memorial in Merida, Mexico
2001 - Shared first in Andorra 7 out of 9
2001 - 2nd place in Gent ( Belgium)
2002 - 1st place in the International Festival in Biel, Switzerland (rapid) 9,5 out of 11
2002 - Qualified for the last 16 in 6th Corsica Masters in Bastia, France (rapid) making a draw with Anand
2002 - 1st place in the 6th Itau Cup in Sao Paulo, Brazil 7.5 out of 9 (category 8)
2002 - 1st place in the First International tournament in San Salvador, El Salvador 7.5 out of 9
2003- 1st place in the Quebec Open
2003- 1st place in the Second International tournament in San Salvador, El Salvador 7.5 out of 9
2004- 1st place in the Week-end tournament in Beer-Sheva
1991-2002 many times Israel Team Champion and Israel Cup Champion in the team of Beer-Sheva Chess Club

I have played the King's Indian as White since my childhood and I can remember just two games as Black. In one of them I've mistakenly played 3...Bg7 instead of my usual 3...d5 (the game was played in the morning!) against GM Huzman and obtained a good position. My most recent win in the King's Indian, against the top 30 player Smirin, will be analysed in the March Update.