Efim Petrovich Geller (Russian: Ефим Петрович Геллер; Ukrainian: Юхим Петрович Геллер; 8 March 1925 – 17 November 1998) was a Soviet chess player and...
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television producer Efim Geller (1925–1998), Soviet chess player E. Scott Geller (born 1942), American behavioral psychologist Esther Geller (1921–2015), American...
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Efim Geller had told Spassky about the strong move 14...Qb7 during their preparation, but Spassky had forgotten the advice and played 14...a6. Geller...
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13½/19, and the remaining qualifiers were Victor Korchnoi with 13 and Efim Geller and Leonid Stein with 12. Notable players who failed to qualify from...
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Efim Geller, who finished 3rd in the 1962 Candidates. Spassky won, earning the right to challenge champion Petrosian for the title. Larsen and Geller...
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Flohr, Viktor Korchnoi, Efim Geller, Savielly Tartakower, Mark Taimanov, Milan Vidmar, Svetozar Gligorić, Isaac Boleslavsky, Efim Bogoljubov and Bent Larsen...
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Finland Soviet Union 21 Paul Keres, Vasily Smyslov, David Bronstein, Efim Geller, Isaac Boleslavsky, Alexander Kotov Argentina 19½ Miguel Najdorf, Julio...
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the most beautiful ideas that he had ever seen. 1953: Efim Geller vs Max Euwe, Zurich. Geller's attack seems to be sweeping Euwe off the board but the...
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games (+11−1=7) with the world-class players Petrosian, Keres, Gligorić, Efim Geller, and Miguel Najdorf among the other participants. Tal played in a total...
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Amsterdam Interzonal, with 17/23. However, he lost his first-round match to Efim Geller. In 1983, at the age of 62, he reached the Candidates' Final (the match...
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Smyslov 10, Keres 9½, Geller 9. In the penultimate round, Keres lost in a winning position against Filip, while Smyslov and Geller drew their games, giving...
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Keres (Soviet Union) Iivo Nei (Soviet Union) 27 1965 Lajos Portisch (Hungary) Efim Geller (Soviet Union) 28 1966 Lev Polugaevsky (Soviet Union) 29 1967 Boris...
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2620 1971-07 Leonid Stein 2620 1972-07 Ljubomir Ljubojević 2620 1976-01 Efim Geller 2620 1976-01 Vlastimil Hort 2620 1977-01 19 Paul Keres 2615 1971-07 Robert...
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included in his opponents' totals. Bent Larsen went on to win, with Korchnoi, Geller, Gligorić, and Portisch taking the next four places. There was a three-way...
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successes in this tournament was his win against Russian grandmaster Efim Geller. He was awarded Padma Shri at age 18. In the 1993 World Chess Championship...
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vs. Efim Geller, Sukhumi Candidates' match 1968, game 6, Sicilian Defence, Closed Variation (B25), 1–0 One of three wins by Spassky over Geller in this...
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while Reshevsky drew with Geller and Bronstein also drew. In round 25, Smyslov defeated Reshevsky, while Bronstein lost to Geller and Keres had the bye....
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non-Soviet – specifically him – from winning. He claimed that Petrosian, Efim Geller and Paul Keres had prearranged to draw all their games, and that Viktor...
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for alternates, an eventual third-place Candidates' position, against Efim Geller by 5–4 at Copenhagen 1966 (the first time a Soviet grandmaster had ever...
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Tigran Petrosian in 1966. In the 1969 cycle, he won matches against Efim Geller, Bent Larsen, and Viktor Korchnoi to win the right to challenge a second...
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competition so far, as it included other masters like Tigran Petrosian and Efim Geller, who were already ranked amongst the best players in the world. Nezhmetdinov...
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Henrique Mecking (Brazil) 2575 - ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 12 2-4 Efim Geller (Soviet Union) 2585 ½ - ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 11½ 89.50 2-4...
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since Alexander Alekhine defeated Efim Bogoljubov in the 1934 World Championship. However, Spassky defeated Efim Geller, Bent Larsen, and Viktor Korchnoi...
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(IM) title in 1964. He was one of Boris Spassky's seconds (along with Efim Geller and Nikolai Krogius) for the 1972 Fischer–Spassky World Championship...
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men's team consisted of Lev Polugaevsky, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Oscar Panno, Efim Geller, Borislav Ivkov and Vasily Smyslov. The women's team consisted of Judit...
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Nigro Evelyne Brochu as Donna Katie Nolan as Maria Edward Zinoviev as Efim Geller Brett Watson as Chief Arbiter Lothar Schmid Director Edward Zwick explained...
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Mikhail Tal, with prominent grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi, Miguel Najdorf, Efim Geller, John Nunn, Svetozar Gligorić, Wolfgang Uhlmann, and Ilya Smirin having...
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Desperado (chess) (section Reshevsky vs. Geller)
Swindle of the Century". Reshevsky vs. Geller, 1953 Reshevsky also fell into a stalemating trap against Efim Geller in the Zürich 1953 Candidates Tournament...
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Tournament Gothenburg David Bronstein USSR Chess Championship Moscow Efim Geller 1955/56 Hastings Viktor Korchnoi 1956 Moscow Mikhail Botvinnik Vasily...
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