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Boris Gelfand: 2777 2013-11 1968 Highest-ranked Israeli player (since 1999), formerly highest-ranked Belarusian player (1993–1998) 27 Hungary Romania: Richárd Rapport: 2776 2022-04 1996 Highest-ranked Hungarian player (2021–2022, since 2024), formerly highest-ranked Romanian player (2022-2024)
Boris Abramovich Gelfand [a] (born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player. 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 .
Gelfand's seconds for the match included Alexander Huzman, Pavel Eljanov, and Maxim Rodshtein. [36] In a post-game press conference, Gelfand confirmed the media speculation that he had additional seconds, who were not revealed. [37] [38] After the match Gelfand revealed that the other seconds were Evgeny Tomashevsky and Michael Roiz. [39]
Jews and the Sporting Life, Vol. 23 of Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Ezra Mendelsohn, Oxford University Press US, 2009, ISBN 0-19-538291-9; The Big Book of Jewish Athletes: Two Centuries of Jews in Sports – a Visual History, Peter S. Horvitz, Joachim Horvitz, S P I Books, 2007, ISBN 1-56171-927-7
Gelfand, Boris - Ye Jiangchuan 1-0 0-1 Gelfand won the Playoff 1.5-0.5 Ivanchuk, Vassily - Anand, Viswanathan 0-1 1/2 Quarter Final Results Women: Day 2 (September 7, 2000) Top Half. Cramling, Pia - Zhu Chen 1-0 1/2 Wang Yu - Xu Yuhua 1/2 0-1 Bottom Half. Wang Pin - Zhukova, Natalia 0-1 1/2 Hoang Thanh Trang - Qin Kanying 1/2 1-0
The inclusion of ex-Soviets, Ilya Smirin, Vasily Ivanchuk, Boris Gelfand, Alexei Shirov and Ruslan Ponomariov however, appeared to compensate well for any losses. Each side was allowed two substitutes, who could fill in anywhere, provided they did not play anyone more than once.
The World Chess Championship 2013 was a match between reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Magnus Carlsen, to determine the World Chess Champion.It was held from 7 to 25 November 2013 in Chennai, India, under the auspices of FIDE (the World Chess Federation).
The 2013 Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess double round-robin tournament that took place in the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Savoy Place, London, from 15 March to 1 April 2013.