Boris Gelfand
Boris Gelfand · Sports
Israeli chess grandmaster, World Championship challenger (2012)
1968, Minsk, Belarus (then USSR)
Belarus · Israel
Boris Gelfand is recognized among Israeli contributors to Sports — Israeli chess grandmaster, World Championship challenger (2012)
Boris Gelfand is a Belarusian-Israeli chess grandmaster who won the 2009 World Cup and the 2011 Candidates Tournament, earning the right to challenge Viswanathan Anand for the 2012 World Chess Championship, where he lost only in a rapid tiebreak after a 6–6 tie. He emigrated to Israel in 1998 and became its highest-rated player. He was born in Minsk to a Belarusian Jewish family.
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Israeli chess grandmaster, World Championship challenger (2012)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish world chess championship runners-up
