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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 .
In an interview with the Russian newspaper "Kommersant", dated 29 July 2011, Boris Gelfand expressed his concern about the offer made by Chennai. Gelfand said the offer from Moscow was the only transparent one; he was not sure of the existence of financial guarantees by the Indian side.
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
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).
Boris Gelfand, Emil Sutovsky, Ilya Smirin – chess Grandmasters (~2700 peak Elo rating) Bar Greenzaid – indoor skydiving athlete, singer and model; Baruch Hagai – wheelchair athlete (multiple paralympic golds) Michael Kolganov – sprint canoer/kayak paddler, world champion, Olympic bronze 2000 (K-1 500-meter)
Short's next attempt proved his most successful. He defeated Mikhail Gurevich in the last round of the Manila Interzonal and finished equal third with Viswanathan Anand, behind Vassily Ivanchuk and Boris Gelfand, qualifying him as a Candidate for the third successive time. Meeting Speelman again in the 8/Final, in London, he tied a close match ...
May 21 – Alexander Roshal (1936–2007), 70, Russian chess journalist, editor of 64-Chess Review, responsible for restoration of the Chess Oscar as an annual award. [33] June 8 – Fenny Heemskerk (1919–2007), 87, ten-time Dutch Ladies' Champion. July 1 – Maxim Sorokin (1968–2007), 38, Russian Grandmaster. [38]