Boris Gelfand

Belarusian-Israeli chess player

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Boris Gelfand is a chess player from Belarus who also holds Israeli citizenship and is considered one of the world's strongest players in the game. He is notable for competing at the highest levels of international chess competition, including challenging for the world chess championship.

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Key facts

Born: Boris Abramovich Gelfand , ( 1968-06-24 ) 24 June 1968 (age 57) , Minsk , Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Country: Soviet Union (until 1991) Belarus (1991–1999) Israel (since 1999)
Title: Grandmaster (1989)
Fide rating: 2635 (June 2026)
Peak rating: 2777 (November 2013)
Ranking: No. 93 (June 2026)
Peak ranking: No. 3 (July 1990)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Boris
Family name: Gelfand
Gender: male
Citizenship: Belarus
Place of birth: Minsk
Occupation: non-fiction writer
Languages spoken: Belarusian
Award: Order of Friendship
Participant in: 43rd Chess Olympiad
Sport: chess
Country for sport: Israel
Image: BorisGelfand12.jpg
Number of children: 2

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Commons category: Boris Gelfand
date of birth: 1968-06-24
Elo rating: 2652
name in native language: Барыс Абрамавіч Гельфанд
ranking: 78
trained by: Albert Kapengut

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Encyclopedic overview

Boris Abramovich Gelfand (born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian and Israeli chess grandmaster.

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. Although the match with defending champion Viswanathan Anand finished level at 6–6, Gelfand lost the deciding rapidplay tiebreak by 2½–1½.

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