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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 started his first game with White in the match by playing 1.d4 and the game went on to the Slav Defence. The position in the game followed the game played between Kasparov and Gelfand in Linares in 1991 where Gelfand lost, but in this game the challenger opted for a different line. Anand played several accurate moves to set up a good ...
Following Gelfand's teaching that it is not important how quickly you win but it's more important how safely you win. (Boris Gelfand: Positional Decision Making in Chess, Quality Chess UK, 2016). The computer says 29.Qd4 is the fastest route but Ganguly trusts Gelfand.
Vladimir Gelfand’s Deutschland-Tagebuch was the subject of widespread media interest with commentators generally agreed that his account forces a review of existing German narratives of the fall of Berlin and the perceived relationship of the Soviet occupiers to the German population at this time."
In the mathematical field of functional analysis, a Gelfand–Shilov space is a space of test functions for the theory of generalized functions, introduced by Gelfand and Shilov (1968, Chapter IV). References
The Najdorf Variation [1] (/ ˈ n aɪ d ɔːr f / NY-dorf) of the Sicilian Defence is one of the most popular, reputable, and deeply studied of all chess openings. [2] [3] Modern Chess Openings calls it the "Cadillac" or "Rolls-Royce" of chess openings. [4]
Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand (Yiddish: ישראל געלפֿאַנד, Russian: Изра́иль Моисе́евич Гельфа́нд, Ukrainian: Ізраїль Мойсейович Гельфанд; 2 September [O.S. 20 August] 1913 – 5 October 2009) was a prominent Soviet-American mathematician.
the Gelfand representation allows a complete characterization of commutative C*-algebras as algebras of continuous complex-valued functions; the Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction; the Gelfand–Naimark theorem; the Gelfand–Mazur theorem; a Gelfand pair, a pair (G,K) consisting of a locally compact unimodular group G and a compact subgroup K