Boris Gelfand (Hebrew: בוריס אברמוביץ' גלפנד; Belarusian: Барыс Абрамавіч Гельфанд, romanized: Barys Abramavič Heĺfand; Russian: Борис Абрамович Гельфанд...

between the defending World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel, winner of the 2011 Candidates Tournament. After sixteen games...

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title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008, Veselin Topalov in 2010, and Boris Gelfand in 2012. In 2013, he lost the title to challenger Magnus Carlsen, and...

Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand (Yiddish: ישראל געלפֿאַנד, Russian: Изра́иль Моисе́евич Гельфа́нд...

prestigious FIDE World Chess Championship between Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand as the organizers felt the event would promote both chess and art at...

Championship. His challenger during the 2012 World Chess Championship Boris Gelfand qualified for the 2013 Candidates Tournament. 30 August. Latest deadline...

three players for the Candidates Tournament. Two World Cup qualifiers (Boris Gelfand in 2009 and Sergey Karjakin in 2015) won the subsequent Candidates tournament...

year, lost a semifinal candidates match for the FIDE championship to Boris Gelfand with the score 3½–4½. In 1998, Kramnik faced Alexei Shirov in a Candidates...

Kamsky also competed in the Candidates Tournament in 2011, losing to Boris Gelfand. Kamsky was born in Novokuznetsk in Russia, in a Tatar family. Gata's...

Bacrot, behind co-winners Caruana and Boris Gelfand. He defeated Caruana in their individual encounter but lost to Gelfand. Overall, Nakamura finished sixth...

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pulled level with Kramnik by defeating Radjabov, while Kramnik drew against Gelfand. Before the last round only Carlsen and Kramnik could win the tournament;...

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behind the winner, Boris Gelfand, and the runner-up, Magnus Carlsen. In September–October he shared first place with Boris Gelfand with 5 points out 9...

Magnus Carlsen, the world champion of 2013, Peter Leko, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Boris Gelfand, Alexander Morozevich, Ruslan Ponomariov and Peter Svidler. The Elo...

players only), as of April 2016. Boris Alterman Boris Avrukh Tal Baron Sergey Erenburg Alexander Finkel Boris Gelfand Alik Gershon Vitali Golod Alon Greenfeld...

qualified for the Candidates stage of the World Chess Championship 2012. Boris Gelfand defeated Ruslan Ponomariov in the final. The winner of the Chess World...

Martirosyan 1 Gata Kamsky 1 Boris Gelfand 2 Boris Gelfand 1 Vincent Keymer 1½ Gadir Guseinov ½ Boris Gelfand 1½ Boris Gelfand 2 Vincent Keymer 2 Bassem...

Mamedyarov vs. Boris Gelfand. 0–1. Candidates (2011), Kazan. Fischer-Sozin Attack: Flank Variation. After various sacrifices, Gelfand has six extra pawns...

2007. His first round opponent was Boris Gelfand. In their match, all six regular games were drawn. Then Gelfand won the rapid tie-break 2½–½, eliminating...

tournament until she was eliminated by tournament winner Boris Gelfand. She handed Gelfand his only loss of the tournament. In 2010, Polgár began her...

Junior Chess Championship, ahead of stars such as Vasily Ivanchuk, Boris Gelfand and Gregory Serper. He is the youngest player ever to win the World...

Qualified via the Candidates Tournament  Péter Lékó (Hungary) 28 2751 7  Boris Gelfand (Israel) 39 2733 13  Levon Aronian (Armenia) 24 2750 8  Alexander Grischuk (Russia)...

Championship 2010. In the World Chess Championship 2012 between Anand and Boris Gelfand, each player used the Grünfeld once with both games ending in draws...

14–25 June. The tournament was a double round robin involving Wang Yue, Boris Gelfand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Teimour Radjabov, and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. He...

bass guitarist Boris Gelfand, Israeli chess grandmaster Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia during the late 16th and early 17th centuries Boris Gromov, Russian...

Many opening variations are named for him. According to Grandmaster Boris Gelfand, "Most of the modern openings are based on Rubinstein." The "Rubinstein...

Nigel Short 4–2, in 2001 tied 3–3 with Emil Sutovsky, in 2002 beat Boris Gelfand 3½–2½, and in 2004 (there was no match in 2003) won against Ivan Sokolov...

Leko (HUN), 2722  Judit Polgár (HUN), 2722  Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR), 2718  Boris Gelfand (ISR), 2703  Zurab Azmaiparashvili (GEO), 2693  Anatoly Karpov (RUS)...