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Boris Gelfand

1968 - Today

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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. 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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Gelfand has received more than 392,414 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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  • 48

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Boris Gelfand ranks 114 out of 374Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Boris Gelfand ranks 139Before 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.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Boris Gelfand ranks 130 out of 330Before 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).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Belarus

Among chess players born in Belarus, Boris Gelfand ranks 3Before 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).