GM Avrukh's individual and team achievements include:
1990 – Soviet Union Champion under 12, and World Champion under 12.
1998 – Gold medal – Olympiad in Elista, Russia – 6th Board.
Bronze medal – Olympiad in Calvia (2004) and Turin (2006).
Team silver medal – European Team Championship, Plovdiv (2003) and Gothenburg (2005).
Team silver medal – Olympiad in Dresden (2008).
2000 and 2008 – Two-time Israeli Champion.
Top Prize at several other International Chess Tournaments, including Paris (1998), Biel (2001, 2002), Politiken Cup (2010) and Zurich (2010).

GM Avrukh has trained some of the world’s elite players, including:
Vladimir Kramnik, whom he assisted in his preparations for the 2006 World Championship match against Veselin Topalov.
Boris Gelfand, whom Boris assisted from 2011 through 2013, and helped prepare for his World Championship Match against Viswanathan Anand.
Hikaru Nakamura, whose opening repertoire Boris helped sharpen.
Fabiano Caruana, whom he trained in 2008 and 2009.
Teimour Rajabov of Azerbaijan, whom he worked with from 2001 to 2003.
Wesley So, with whom Boris worked in 2016.
Israel’s National Team, which Boris prepared for the World Team Championship in China.
From 2016 to 2024, Boris worked with the England national team and its top players. A highlight was the team silver medal at the 2019 World Team Championship in Kazakhstan.
Boris is also a well-renowned published author, having been approached in 2008 by the Quality Chess publishing house to author “1.d4 Grandmaster Repertoire” (two volumes). Since then he has published ten books, all of which have been very well received due to their extraordinary quality!