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Boris Gelfand

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Boris Abramovich Gelfand (Hebrew: בוריס אברמוביץ גלפנד; 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. Although the match with defending champion Viswanathan Anand finished level at 6–6, Gelfand lost the deciding rapidplay tiebreak by 2½–1½. Gelfand has won major tournaments at Wijk aan Zee, Tilburg, Moscow, Linares and Dos Hermanas. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Gelfand is the 130th most popular chess player (down from 124th in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 151st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belarusian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Boris Gelfand ranks 130 out of 461. Before him are Leonid Stein, Sonja Graf, Genrikh Kasparyan, Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, and Humpy Koneru. After him are András Adorján, Ernst Falkbeer, Miroslav Filip, Wolfgang Unzicker, Vladimir Bagirov, and Győző Forintos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Boris Gelfand ranks 177. Before him are Rasmus Lerdorf, Kristin Chenoweth, Hassan Ali Khayre, Florence Devouard, Dorinel Munteanu, and Chayanne. After him are Alex Zülle, Bill Lawrence, Andrew Golota, Kurt Angle, Ziggy Marley, and Hwang Sun-hong.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Boris Gelfand ranks 146 out of 368. Before him are Vasily Rudenkov (1931), Roman Golovchenko (1973), Alexander Hleb (1981), Sofya Yanovskaya (1896), Lev Dovator (1903), and Alaiza Pashkevich (1876). After him are Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov (1714), Sergey Ling (1937), Natasha Zvereva (1971), Anna Tumarkin (1875), Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903), and Vitaly Scherbo (1972).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Belarus

Among chess players born in Belarus, Boris Gelfand ranks 3. Before him are Dawid Janowski (1868), and Lev Polugaevsky (1934). After him are Viktor Kupreichik (1949), Evgeny Agrest (1966), Ilya Smirin (1968), Aleksej Aleksandrov (1973), Alexei Fedorov (1972), Yury Shulman (1975), Sergei Zhigalko (1989), and Sergei Azarov (1983).

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