1968 - Today
Boris Gelfand (Hebrew: בוריס אברמוביץ' גלפנד; Belarusian: Барыс Абрамавіч Гельфанд, romanized: Barys Abramavič Heĺfand; Russian: Борис Абрамович Гельфанд, romanized: Boris Abramovich Gel'fand; 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Gelfand has received more than 395,333 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Gelfand is the 114th most popular chess player (up from 131st in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 117th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belarusian Chess Player.
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Among chess players, Boris Gelfand ranks 114 out of 374. Before him are Georg Marco, Petar Trifunović, Igor Bondarevsky, William Lombardy, Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, and Oscar Panno. After him are Boris Kostić, Alexander McDonnell, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Adolf Schwarz, Carlos Torre Repetto, and Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant.
1863 - 1923
HPI: 48.41
Rank: 108
1910 - 1980
HPI: 48.27
Rank: 109
1913 - 1979
HPI: 48.26
Rank: 110
1937 - 2017
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 111
1818 - 1899
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 112
1935 - Present
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 113
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.12
Rank: 114
1887 - 1963
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 115
1798 - 1835
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 116
1935 - 2020
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 117
1836 - 1910
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 118
1904 - 1978
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 119
1800 - 1872
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 120
Among people born in 1968, Boris Gelfand ranks 139. Before him are Rosalinda Celentano, Raghad Hussein, Jeffrey Donovan, Angelica Bella, Michael Vartan, and Mauro Silva. After him are Gary Payton, Sofie Gråbøl, Frédéric Diefenthal, Frank Leboeuf, Bennet Omalu, and Michael Stich.
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.29
Rank: 133
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.29
Rank: 134
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.24
Rank: 135
1968 - 2021
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 136
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.14
Rank: 137
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.14
Rank: 138
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.12
Rank: 139
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.12
Rank: 140
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.05
Rank: 141
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.04
Rank: 142
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.02
Rank: 143
1968 - Present
HPI: 47.97
Rank: 144
1968 - Present
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 145
Among people born in Belarus, Boris Gelfand ranks 130 out of 330. Before him are Kazimierz Alchimowicz (1840), Roman Golovchenko (1973), Lev Dovator (1903), Ryhor Baradulin (1935), Valeriya Novodvorskaya (1950), and Hayder of Crimea (null). After him are Tadevuš Kandrusievič (1946), Alexander Hleb (1981), Anna Tumarkin (1875), Alexander Chervyakov (1892), Sofya Yanovskaya (1896), and Lev Schnirelmann (1905).
1840 - 1916
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 124
1973 - Present
HPI: 48.55
Rank: 125
1903 - 1941
HPI: 48.38
Rank: 126
1935 - 2014
HPI: 48.37
Rank: 127
1950 - 2014
HPI: 48.35
Rank: 128
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 129
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.12
Rank: 130
1946 - Present
HPI: 48.06
Rank: 131
1981 - Present
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 132
1875 - 1951
HPI: 47.72
Rank: 133
1892 - 1937
HPI: 47.61
Rank: 134
1896 - 1966
HPI: 47.19
Rank: 135
1905 - 1938
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 136
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), Ilya Smirin (1968), Evgeny Agrest (1966), Aleksej Aleksandrov (1973), Sergei Zhigalko (1989), Yury Shulman (1975), and Sergei Azarov (1983).
1868 - 1927
HPI: 53.89
Rank: 1
1934 - 1995
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 2
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.12
Rank: 3
1949 - 2017
HPI: 40.31
Rank: 4
1968 - Present
HPI: 35.59
Rank: 5
1966 - Present
HPI: 33.21
Rank: 6
1973 - Present
HPI: 28.30
Rank: 7
1989 - Present
HPI: 27.44
Rank: 8
1975 - Present
HPI: 24.09
Rank: 9
1983 - Present
HPI: 22.12
Rank: 10