CHESS PLAYER

Boris Gulko

1947 - Today

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Boris Franzevich Gulko (Russian: Борис Францевич Гулько, IPA: [bɐˈrʲiz ɡʊlʲˈko]; born February 9, 1947) is a Soviet-American Grandmaster in chess. Notably, he is the only person to win both the Soviet Chess Championship and the U.S. Chess Championship, and one of the few players with a plus score against Garry Kasparov. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Gulko is the 194th most popular chess player (up from 211th in 2019), the 5,211th most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,528th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Boris Gulko ranks 194 out of 461. Before him are Ivan Sokolov, George Koltanowski, Zoltán Ribli, Vladimirs Petrovs, Adolf Schwarz, and Ian Nepomniachtchi. After him are Amos Burn, Clarice Benini, Max Weiss, Leonid Shamkovich, Carl Mayet, and Jonathan Penrose.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Boris Gulko ranks 681. Before him are Warren Zevon, Branislav Pokrajac, Denis Oswald, Hans Jacobson, Boujemaa Benkhrif, and Paulo de Carvalho. After him are Wayne Allwine, Robert Service, Glenn Cornick, Frank Shorter, Leena Krohn, and Rói Patursson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Boris Gulko ranks 5,214 out of 7,253. Before him are Shkodran Mustafi (1992), Gerd Hornberger (1910), Walther Schreiber (1884), Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727), Bärbel Bas (1968), and Erwin Bauer (1912). After him are Jens Jeremies (1974), Gisela May (1924), Erwin Strittmatter (1912), Hans Theilig (1914), Horst Faas (1933), and Henriette Reker (1956).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Germany

Among chess players born in Germany, Boris Gulko ranks 12. Before him are Wolfgang Uhlmann (1935), Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818), Sonja Graf (1908), Wolfgang Unzicker (1925), Hermann Pilnik (1914), and Bernhard Horwitz (1807). After him are Carl Mayet (1810), Aaron Alexandre (1766), Natalia Zhukova (1979), and Elisabeth Pähtz (1985).

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