Boris Gelfand
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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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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.