Boris Abramovich Gelfand (born 24 June 1968 in Belarus) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster. He won the 2011 Candidates Tournament and is challenging Viswanathan Anand for the World Chess Championship 2012.
Boris Gelfand was born in Minsk, Belarussian SSR on 24 June 1968. In 1998, he emigrated to Israel and settled in Rishon LeZion, where he became Israel's top ranking chess player.
Gelfand was Junior Champion of the Soviet Union at 17, and European ...
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Boris Abramovich Gelfand (born 24 June 1968 in Belarus) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster. He won the 2011 Candidates Tournament and is challenging Viswanathan Anand for the World Chess Championship 2012.
Boris Gelfand was born in Minsk, Belarussian SSR on 24 June 1968. In 1998, he emigrated to Israel and settled in Rishon LeZion, where he became Israel's top ranking chess player.
Gelfand was Junior Champion of the Soviet Union at 17, and European Junior Champion two years later. In 1988 he tied for first in the World Junior Championship, the title however going to Joël Lautier. The next year he earned the GM title. He has won about 30 tournaments in his professional career, including tournaments at Wijk aan Zee (in 1992 and 1994) and first places in Biel (1993), Dos Hermanas (1994), Belgrade (1995), Tilburg (1996), Malmö (1999), and Pamplona (2004).
Gelfand has qualified several times for Candidates Tournaments for the World Chess Championship. In the World Chess Championship 1993, he...
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