Boris Gelfand
Israeli chess grandmaster (born 1968) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Boris Gelfand (Hebrew: בוריס אברמוביץ' גלפנד; Belarusian: Барыс Абрамавіч Гельфанд, romanized: Barys Abramavič Heĺfand; Russian: Борис Абрамович Гельфанд, romanized: Boris Abramovich Gel'fand; born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player.
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Full name | Boris Abramovich Gelfand |
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Born | (1968-06-24) 24 June 1968 (age 55) Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union |
Title | Grandmaster (1989) |
FIDE rating | 2658 (May 2024) |
Peak rating | 2777 (November 2013) |
Ranking | No. 77 (May 2024) |
Peak ranking | No. 3 (July 1990) |
A six-time World Championship candidate (1991, 1994–95, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2013), he won the Chess World Cup 2009 and the 2011 Candidates Tournament, making him challenger for the World Chess Championship 2012. Although the match with defending champion Viswanathan Anand finished level at 6–6, Gelfand lost the deciding rapidplay tiebreak by 2½–1½.[2]
Gelfand has won major tournaments at Wijk aan Zee, Tilburg, Moscow, Linares and Dos Hermanas. He has competed in eleven Chess Olympiads and held a place within the top 30 players ranked by FIDE from January 1990 to October 2017.[3]