Boris Abramovich Gelfand (Hebrew: בוריס אברמוביץ גלפנד; born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player. A six-time World Championship candidate...

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

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...

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

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

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

Kings Tournament in Romania in June, two points ahead of Radjabov and Boris Gelfand. In August, Carlsen played in the Arctic Securities Chess Stars tournament...

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

 Russia 2725 Vassily Ivanchuk  Ukraine 2710 Viswanathan Anand  India 2710 Boris Gelfand  Belarus 2690 Vladimir Kramnik  Russia 2685 Alexei Shirov  Latvia 2670...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

the players at the World Cup, Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk and Boris Gelfand, were successful in the Candidates and qualified for the World Championship...

skateboarding move Alan E. Gelfand, a statistician Boris Gelfand, a chess grandmaster Israel Gelfand, a mathematician, Mikhail Gelfand, a molecular biologist...

2725  Alexander Beliavsky (SLO), 2710  Alexei Shirov (ESP), 2700  Boris Gelfand (BLR), 2695  Michael Adams (ENG), 2680  Valery Salov (RUS), 2680  Yevgeny...

Kasparov, Shirov, Bareev, Kramnik, Lautier, Anand, Kamsky, Topalov, Ivanchuk, Gelfand, Illescas, Judit Polgár, and Beliavsky. Karpov won with an undefeated 11/13...

highest-ranked Soviet player (1974–1986) 26  Soviet Union  Belarus  Israel Boris Gelfand 2777 2013-11 1968 Highest-ranked Israeli player (since 1999), formerly...

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...

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

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

Alexander Morozevich and Boris Gelfand. A two-game exhibition match was played between Alexander Morozevich and Boris Gelfand, in the same time control...

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...

Shai Gabso (born 1984), singer Gideon Gechtman (1942–2008), sculptor Boris Gelfand (born 1968), chess grandmaster Rami Gershon (born 1988), international...