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Boris Gelfand was born in Minsk, in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, on 24 June 1968 to Belarusian Jewish parents. His parents, Abram and Nella, were engineers. His father bought him a book about chess, Journey to the Chess Kingdom, by Averbakh and Beilin, when he was five years ol
Boris Gelfand (born 1968), Belarusian-born Israeli grandmaster, World Cup champion [14] Efim Geller (1925–1998), Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster [18]
Boris Gelfand [58] Efim Geller [58] Eduard Gufeld [58] Boris Gulko [58] Dmitry Gurevich [58] Ilya Gurevich [58] Mikhail Gurevich [58] Nicolai Jasnogrodsky; Gregory Kaidanov [10] Ilya Kan [10] Garry Kasparov, World Champion [10] Alexander Khalifman, FIDE World Champion [10] Alexander Konstantinopolsky [10] Viktor Korchnoi, World Championship ...
His opponent was Boris Gelfand, the winner of the 2011 Candidates Matches. After losing Game 7 to Gelfand, Anand came back to win Game 8 in only 17 moves, the shortest decisive game in World Chess Championship history. The match was tied 6–6 after regular games with one win each.
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)
Kirk Douglas, of Belarusian Jewish parents; Jackie Mason, whose parents were Jewish emigrants from Smalyavichy in the Minsk Region; Lisa Kudrow, her ancestors emigrated from Belarus; Scarlett Johansson, actress and singer, maternal Jewish grandparents came from Minsk.
The Corus Chess Tournament 2008 was the 70th edition of the Corus Chess Tournament.. It took place in the De Moriaan Community Centre in Wijk aan Zee in January 2008. The format of each of the three Grandmaster groups remained a 14 player single round robin.
G. Boris Gelfand; Efim Geller; Uzi Geller; Ernő Gereben; José Gerschman; Alik Gershon; Edward Gerstenfeld; Bella Gesser; Eduard Glass; Solomon Globus; Leonid Gofshtein