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Boris Gelfand
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Boris Gelfand is a chess player born on June 24, 1968. He holds an Elo rating of 2777 and is ranked 78th. Gelfand has two children.
He is the author of several books, including *Positional Decision Making in Chess* (2nd Edition), *Technical Decision Making in Chess* (2nd Edition), *Positional Decision Making in Chess*, *Decision Making in Major Piece Endings*, and *Technical Decision Making in Chess*. His bibliography includes five works according to Crossref and four according to Open Library.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Positional Decision Making in Chess, 2nd Edition
- Technical Decision Making in Chess, 2nd Edition
- Positional Decision Making in Chess
- Decision Making in Major Piece Endings
- Technical Decision Making in Chess
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
- The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: An Open Platform for Exploring Multidimensional Cancer Genomics Data
· 2012 · cited 15,161x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,994x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,798x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,215x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Boris Abramovich Gelfand , ( 1968-06-24 ) 24 June 1968 (age 57) , Minsk , Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
- Country
- Soviet Union (until 1991) Belarus (1991–1999) Israel (since 1999)
- Title
- Grandmaster (1989)
- Fide rating
- 2635 (June 2026)
- Peak rating
- 2777 (November 2013)
- Ranking
- No. 93 (June 2026)
- Peak ranking
- No. 3 (July 1990)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boris Gelfand” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.